Michael Sachs is an Associate Professor at the Section of Biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen, and has an affiliation at the Karolinska Institute. He has a PhD degree in biostatistics from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
He has worked as an applied statistician in a variety of medical areas including, cancer treatment and diagnosis, inflammatory diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and nephrology. He is an avid R user and developer, with a passion for open science, data visualization, and reproducible research.
His personal research interests are the development and evaluation of risk prediction models and biomarkers, assay development and validation, statistical computing, causal inference in observational studies, and tools for reproducible research.
He is the director of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Copenhagen. Read more about the program here: https://phd-biostatistics.ku.dk/
Education
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
PhD in Biostatistics, 2011
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
B.A.s in Mathematics and French, 2005
Experience
University of Copenhagen, Associate Professor: 2022 - present.
Karolinska Institutet, Biostatistician: 2016 - 2022.
National Cancer Institute, Mathematical Statistician: 2014 - 2016.
