Prof. Dr. Peter L. Bühlmann

Peter Bühlmann has been Full Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich since 1 October 2004.

He was born on April 12, 1965, citizen from Sempach (Switzerland), and studied mathematics at the ETH Zurich (1985-1990). In 1993, he received his doctoral degree in mathematics (statistics) from the ETH Zurich. From 1994-1995 he worked as a postdoc in the Department of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. Following this he spent two more years, from 1995-1997, at the U.C. Berkeley as Neyman assistant professor. From 1997-2001 he was Assistant Professor and from 2001-2004 Associate Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich.

His main research is in the field of statistics, with connections to machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology. Of special interest are the areas of high-dimensional statistics, computational methods for large-scale modeling, and causal inference.