Dankmar Böhning

Professor Dankmar Böhning holds a Chair in Medical Statistics at the University of Southampton, affiliated with the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) as Deputy Director. His expertise spans mathematical sciences and medicine, with a focus on meta-analysis, capture-recapture methods in health/social sciences, count data analysis, and mixture models.

Education: Bielefeld and Berlin universities (Mathematics/Social Sciences), PhD (1981) and Habilitation (1992) from Free University Berlin. Career highlights include roles as Chair in Statistics at University of Reading (2005–2011) and visiting positions at institutions in Vienna, Graz, PennState, Bangkok, and Manila.

Research interests include applying statistical methods to healthcare challenges, including epidemiological studies and clinical trials. He leads projects like CLASP Cancer and capture-recapture for contact-tracing efficacy. Active in teaching statistical inference and epidemiology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Key achievements: Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor Prize (2022), editorial roles (e.g., Biometrical Journal), and leadership in national/international research collaborations. His recent work focuses on pandemic modeling (Covid-19) and improving diagnostic testing strategies.