1 January 2018 CURRICULUM VITAE Niels Keiding, Born 14 May 1944

January 2018

CURRICULUM VITAE

Niels Keiding, born 14 May 1944. Cand.stat. 1968 from University of Copenhagen. Honorary doctor, Université Bordeaux 2 Victor Segalen 2005.

1969-78 Assistant and associate professor at University of Copenhagen, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

1978-83 Research director at the Statistical Research Unit, Danish Medical and Social Science Research Councils

1984-89 Research professor in biostatistics, working at Statistical Research Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

1990-2014 Professor of biostatistics, University of Copenhagen

1992-97 Adjunct professor, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University

2014- Emeritus professor of biostatistics, University of Copenhagen

Elected to International Statistical Institute 1978. Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA) 1987. Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science (Harvard School of Public Health) 2001. Peter Armitage Lecturer, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge (England) 2004. Elected as Foreign Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 2005. Honorary Life Member, International Biometric Society 2008. Bernard Greenberg Lecturer, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009. Norman E. Breslow lecturer, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, 2010. Member of Academia Europaea 2011. Honorary Life Member, Danish Society of Theoretical Statistics, 2015.

International study leaves/visiting professorships at Stanford University (Depts. of Biological Sciences and Statistics) September 1973 to August 1974, University of Washington, Seattle (Biostatistics) November 1985 to January 1986, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK January- February 1989, University of Western Australia (Mathematics) University Visiting Fellow Nov- ember-December 1989, The Ohio State University (Statistics) University Distinguished Visiting Professor April-June 1991, Université Paris V May-June 2000, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo January 2006, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK October-November 2009, Jesus College, University of Oxford, January-March 2012.

1 Since 1965 participated in many international conferences and paid shorter visits to universities in many countries. In this connection given many invited papers, in particular Institute of Mathematical Statistics Special Invited Lecturer, San Francisco 1987, Baltimore 1990, Bernoulli Society Forum Lectures, Barcelona 1991. President’s invited lecture, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Copenhagen 2008, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics invited lecture, Turku 2011. Read papers to the Royal Statistical Society 1991 and 2015. Keynote speaker, conference on ‘Data science, precision medicine and risk analysis with lifetime data’, Connecticut, May 2017.

Member of editorial board for Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 1977-86, for European Journal of Clinical Investigation 1980-85, for Controlled Clinical Trials 1983-87, for Biometrics 1984-88, for Statistics in Medicine 1985-94 and 2003-04, for Annals of Statistics 1986-88 and for Demographic Research 2001-15. Editor of "Shorter Communications" in Biometrics 1988-92. Book review editor, Statistics in Medicine, 1995-2003. Advisory board, Biometrical Journal 1995-2003, Biostatistics 2000-. Refereed manuscripts for many journals in statistics, probability theory, biostatistics, population dynamics and medical science. Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews 1975-2005. Co-editor of Monograph Series and Interdisciplinary Series, Chapman & Hall, 1993- and of Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (Wiley) 1995- 97, 2001-04.

Organisations: Co-founder of and secretary in Danish Society of Theoretical Statistics 1971-75. Bernoulli Society of Mathematical Statistics and Probability: treasurer 1981-87; member of European Regional Committee 1980-88. Chairman of the board of Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 1988-91. Vice president for The Biometric Society 1991 and 1994. President 1992-93. Chairman Editorial Advisory Committee 2000-03. Royal Statistical Society Research Section Committee 1999-2003. Member of Council and several ad hoc committees in Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA) and International Statistical Institute (ISI); Vice president ISI 1997- 99, President-elect 2003-05, President 2005-07.

Member of many programme committees for international scientific conferences, including programme chair of International Biometric Conference, Budapest 1990 and 51th Session of International Statistical Institute, Istanbul 1997.

University administration: Chairman of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, University of Copenhagen 1976-78, head of Statistical Research Unit (later Department of Biostatistics) 1978- 2011. Member of several committees at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen 1988-2011.

Committees: Member of Consulting Service of Danish Medical Research Council (since 1997 sponsored by Eastern Danish Medical Research Forum) 1969-75, advisor and administrator 1978- 2007. Member of committee on nutritional epidemiology, Bundesgesundheitsamt, Berlin, 1990-92. Member of Research Advisory Committee, Statistics Denmark 1991-2014. Chairman of the Committee under the Danish National Research Foundation concerning establishing research facilities for register research 1993 and for the board of the register research unit 1995-2000. Member of National Advisory Panel, Research School of Historical Demography, Lund, Sweden, 2007-09. Member of Advisory Board, Linneaus-grant ‘Ageing and Living Conditions’, Umeå University 2007-12. Member of steering committee, Evaluation of Mammography Screening, Norwegian Research Council 2007-15. Board member, International Prize in Statistics Foundation, 2014-17.

Evaluated applicants for professorships in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, England, Germany and France. Evaluated dissertations for the Danish Doctoral Degree (including 13 for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in Copenhagen) and Ph.D. dissertations in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, England, The Netherlands, Germany, France and India.

Evaluated research proposals for Research Councils in Sweden, Canada, U.S.A., and Australia. Evaluated (at site visit) Sonderforschungsbereich in München 1994, 1997, 2000 and 2003; Dortmund 2003 and 2006; Department of Statistics, University of Oxford 1998; Département Biométrie et Intelligence Artificielle, INRA, France 1999, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, England 1999, International panel member, Research Assessment Exercise 2001, 2008, U.K. International Review of Mathematics in the U.K. 2003, Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry, GSF, Neuherberg (München) 2005. Search committee for Director at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock 2002. Evaluated Department of Mathematics, Aalborg University, 2012. Evaluated European Research Council Synergy Grants 2012, Advanced Grants (Mathematics) 2013. .

Teaching: mathematical statistics, biostatistics, demography to students in mathematical statistics, public health, Ph.D. at Faculty of Health Sciences, all at University of Copenhagen.

Leader of Danish Graduate School in Biostatistics 2004-08.

Advised Ph.D. students in biostatistics and demography:

Peter Dalgaard: Mathematical models in fluorophotometry 1987-91.

Kim Knudsen: Event history data in measles and diarrhea 1989-91.

Knud Juel: Morbidity, mortality and fertility for workers at Thule Air Force Base 1991-95.

Henrik Wachmann: Epidemic models for measles and diphtheria 1993-97.

Torben Martinussen: Weight as response and determinant in cohort studies (informative dropout) 1995-98.

Henrik Thoning: Graphical models in health services research 1995-2000.

Lars Endahl: Statistical methods for longitudinal studies and epidemiological aspects of analysing self-rated repetitive strain injuries in follow-up studies 1997-2000.

Ivan Iachine: The use of twin and family survival data in the population studies of aging: statistical methods based on multivariate survival models 1997-2001.

Jan Parner: Time-dependent confounding 1997-2000.

Esben Budtz-Jørgensen: Statistical methods for the evaluation of health effects of prenatal mercury exposure 1998-2001.

Rune Jacobsen: Mortality in Danish Women: age, period and cohort analysis 2000-2003.

Susanne Rosthøj: Feed-back mechanisms in chemotherapy dosing strategies for childhood leukaemia, 2003-09.

Lau C. Thygesen: Longitudinal exposure measurements in alcohol epidemiology, 2004-07.

Mette Gerster: Socioeconomic determinants of fertility 2006-09.

Lars Hougaard Nielsen: Describing episodes of postmenopausal hormone therapy using prescription registries. 2006-09.

Ulla A. Hvidtfeldt: Mechanisms of social inequality in breast cancer – clustering, mediation, and interaction, 2009-14.