Sophie K. Piper

Sophie K. Piper is a researcher at the Institute of Medical Informatics at Charité – University Medicine Berlin, with a background in medical biometry and biostatistics. She specializes in biometric consulting, study planning and evaluation, and clinical research in neurology, stroke, and anesthesia.

• Education: PhD in Machine Learning/Intelligent Data Analysis from TU Berlin and Charité, with collaboration at the Berlin NeuroImaging Center and Optical Imaging Group; Diploma in Physics from Humboldt University of Berlin; Erasmus exchange at ETH Zurich, specializing in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.
• Professional Background: Postdoc at the Institute of Medical Informatics (since 2020), Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology (since 2017), and prior roles at the Center for Stroke Research Berlin and NeuroCure Clinical Research Center NCRC.
• Skills: Expertise in R, STATA, and SPSS for statistical analysis; German native speaker with English proficiency.

Her research focuses on integrating clinical routine data into study designs, advancing neurology and stroke research through statistical methodologies, and contributing to medical informatics. She has received prestigious fellowships, including the Wellcome Trust Funded Translational Partnership and Charité’s stipendium.

• Professional Engagement: Member of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) and the International Biometric Society, German Region (IBS-DR).
• Labs/Teams: Working Group on Clinical Routine Data, Center for Stroke Research Berlin, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center NCRC.