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Paavo Sattler is co-organizing the IBS-DR Workshop on Multivariate and Functional Data Analysis in Biostatistics

© Paavo Sattler​/​TU Dortmund
Participants at the Workshop in Aachen
Members of the working group traveled to Aachen

On September 8–9, 2026, approximately 30 participants from several countries gathered at RWTH Aachen University for the workshop “Multivariate and Functional Data Analysis in Biostatistics.” The workshop was jointly organized by the IBS-DR Working Groups on Nonparametric Methods and Statistics for Stochastic Processes. Paavo Sattler, co-leader of the Working Group on Nonparametric Methods and a postdoc in Markus Pauly’s group, organized the workshop together with Jan Feifel (Merck Healthcare KGaA), Dennis Dobler (RWTH Aachen University), and Merle Munko (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). 

The program featured four invited speakers: Ingrid Van Keilegom (KU Leuven), Virginie Rondeau (University of Bordeaux), Łukasz Smaga (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), and Edgar Brunner (University Medical Center Göttingen), the latter two being long-standing research collaborators of our group. The collaboration with Łukasz Smaga was also reflected in the contributed session, with Marléne Baumeister (TU Dortmund University) and Natalia Stefańska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) presenting work from the joint DFG WAEVE project, “Powerful inference for functional data in complex factorial designs.” 

The workshop brought together a wide range of topics as well as participants with diverse scientific backgrounds, ranging from more theoretical and methodological work to applied biostatistical research. This combination led to many points of connection and lively discussions following the presentations, during the breaks, and at the conference dinner. We are particularly pleased with the many new ideas, collaborations, and projects that took shape during these two days.