Andrea Ingeborg Riebler

Andrea Ingeborg Riebler is a Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her research focuses on Bayesian statistics, spatial modeling, disease mapping, and statistical software development. She is a leading contributor to the R-INLA framework for Bayesian hierarchical modeling and has developed packages like SUMMER and makemyprior for spatial-temporal analysis and prior elicitation. Her work bridges methodological advancements with applications in public health, demography, and epidemiology.

Key research interests include spatial epidemiology, meta-analysis, and robust statistical modeling. She collaborates widely, particularly with researchers in geostatistics, computational statistics, and health sciences. Notable contributions include methods for small-area estimation in low/middle-income countries, cancer burden projections, and addressing positional uncertainty in geostatistical surveys.

Her recent publications (2023–2025) emphasize scalable disease forecasting, mortality-based cancer incidence prediction, and improving DHS data analysis through positional adjustment. Teaching includes advanced computational statistics, survival analysis, and statistical modeling for biologists.

• Education: Doctoral dissertation work at NTNU (2021) focused on robust hierarchical models.
• Grants/Projects: Active in international health surveys (e.g., European Social Survey Health Inequalities Module).
• Labs/Teams: Collaborates with the NTNU Statistics Group and global health data initiatives.