Committee

Corinna Martarelli - President
Psychology Faculty
UniDistance Suisse
Schinerstrasse 18, 3900 Brigue
corinna.martarelli@fernuni.ch

Corinna received her PhD in psychology from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Currently, she holds the position of associate professor for methods and statistics at the Faculty of Psychology of UniDistance Suisse. She has been serving as the president of the Swiss Statistical Society since 2022.

Rachel Heyard - Vice-president
Center for Reproducible Science
University of Zurich
Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zürich
rachel.heyard@uzh.ch

Rachel is a postdoctoral fellow in meta research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich. She holds a PhD in statistics from the University of Zurich and worked as a statistician in the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation before finding her way back to research. Her research interest revolve around open science, reproducibility and research evaluation. She is a member of the committee of the SSS since summer 2020.

Laurent Donzé - Committee member and President of the Section Education and Research
ASAM Group, Department of Informatics
University of Fribourg
Bd de Pérolles 90, 1700 Fribourg
laurent.donze@unifr.ch

Laurent is Professor of Applied Statistics and Modelling (ASAM) and Head of the research group in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg. His teaching experience includes Mathematics and Econometrics, Introductory Statistics, Survey Statistics, Applied Econometrics and Applied Statistics. His main research fields are survey methodology and specialized methods in Applied Statistics as wage discrimination, causal effects estimation, imputation and matching techniques, fuzzy statistics.

Marc Gindraux - Committee Member
Office fédéral de la statistique
Espace de l’Europe 10, 2010 Neuchâtel
marc.gindraux@bfs.admin.ch

Marc Gindraux, master's degree in mathematics and postgraduate in Statistics from the University Neuchâtel, is vice director of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) and head of the division “Territory and Environnement”. He has been serving as the President of the organisation committee of the Swiss Statistics Meeting since 2019. He is also a member of the Ethics Council for official Statistics.

Antonietta Mira - Committee Member
Università della Svizzera italiana
Via Buffi 13, 6904 Lugano
antonietta.mira@usi.ch

Antonietta è professore di Statistica, fondatrice e direttrice del Data Science Lab presso l'Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano. È inoltre professore aggiunto presso l'Università dell'Insubria, Italia, e la Queensland University of Technology, Australia. È stata nominata fellow dell'Institute of Mathematical Statistics e dell'International Society for Bayesian Analysis ed è membro del consiglio dell'Office of Federal Statistics e della Harvard Data Science Review. La sua ricerca attuale si concentra sulla scienza dei dati e sulla statistica computazionale bayesiana, con una chiara portata interdisciplinare e applicazioni alle scienze della vita, alle scienze sociali, alla finanza e all'economia. Ha vinto premi per l'eccellenza nella ricerca e nell'insegnamento. Antonietta è coinvolta nella divulgazione pubblica sia come organizzatrice di eventi che come relatrice e attraverso i media è impegnata nel rafforzamento della cultura della scienza dei dati.