Short CV

Karl Mosler is Professor of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Cologne since 1995. Previously, from 1985 to 1995, he was Professor of Statistics and Quantitative Economics at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg. He received his academic education at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich (Diplom Mathematiker, 1972), and at the Technical University of Munich (Dr. rer. nat., 1975). In 1981 he completed his “Habilitation” in Statistics and Operations Research. He has held temporary and visiting professorships at the universities of Kassel, Hamburg and Frankfurt/Oder as well as at the universities of Pavia and Milan (Bocconi) in Italy. He was awarded the “August Lösch Prize for Regional Science” and the “Erik Kempe Prize in memoriam Tord Palander” of the University of Umea. From 2004 to 2008 he was President of the German Statistical Society and since 2005 he serves as Vice President of the German Consortium in Statistics (DAGStat). He is one of the principal researchers of the Cologne Graduate School.

Mosler’s research interests include statistical and econometric methods, in particular the non-parametric analysis of multivariate data, the modeling of risk, and the measurement of social economic inequality. He is the author of four scientific monographs, three textbooks, and some sixty scholarly articles. Among other journals, he has published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Annals of Statistics, the Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Inequality, Theory and Decision, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. In addition, he has served as editor and co-editor of several books and journals.