Reinhard Furrer's scientific services

[ Conf Organization | Dept. and Uni. Services | Public Services ]

A more detailed enumeration is given in the pdf version of the CV (last update [an error occurred while processing this directive]).

Editorial Activities

• Editorial Board Member, Spatial Statistics, since 2015.
• Associate Editor, Stat, since 2012.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Multivariate Statistics (JMVA), 2011-2015.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES), 2014-2015.

Manuscript Reviews

Journal Articles: Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Automation in Construction, Bayesian Analysis, Biometrical Journal, Climate D ynamics, Climate of the Past, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Computational Geosciences, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Environmetrics, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Journal of Climate, Journal of Multivariate Statistics, Journal of Statistical Software, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Meteorologische Zeit\-schrift, Nature, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Technometrics, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Spatial Statistics, Statistica Sinica, Statistics and Computing, Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, and Water Resources Research.

Book Proposals: Springer, New York.

Various Conference Proceedings manuscripts.

Grant Proposal Reviews: United States National Science Foundation, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation, STARS Grants (University of Padova, Italy).

Conference and Session Organisation

International workshop on Scaling and estimation of Earth's diversity October 15-18, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland (joint with G. Schaepman-Strub and M. Schaepman). Workshop on Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models with Applications, February 2-5, 2011, at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (joint with L. Held).

Topic-contributed session Modern Nonparametric Statistics in Climate Science for the Conference on Nonparametric Statistics and Statistical Learning, May 19-22, 2010 at the The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

Topic-contributed session New Research in Spatial and Environmental Statistics at the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 2-6, 2009 in Washington DC, USA.

Topic-contributed session Climate, Weather, and Spatial-temporal Models at the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 6-10, 2006 in Seattle, USA (joint with S. Sain).

13th European Young Statistician Meeting, September 21-26, in Ovronnaz, Switzerland (joint with T. Gsponer, B. Fournier and E.-M. Restle).

Departmental and University Service

`Studiendelegierter' Department of Mathematics, since fall 2017.

Managing Director, Master in Biostatistics, UZH, since 2011.

Member of steering committee, University Research Priority Programme (URPP) on Global Change and Biodiversity (GCB), since 2013.

Member of initiating committee of the new minor in Applied Probability and Statistics.

Member of structured PhD programs Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Ecology (Life Sciences Graduate School Zurich), of Zurich Graduate School in Mathematics, and of Computational Science Zurich Graduate School.

Member of more than 25 Ph.D. thesis committee at UZH (current as well as past).

First opponent for Ph.D. thesis defence of Andrey Kovalenko, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway.

External member for Ph.D. viva `Characterising and modelling time-varying rainfall extremes and climatic drivers' of Mari Jones, School of Civil Engineering and Geoscience, Newcastle University, UK.

Member, admission committee, Master in Statistics, ETHZ and UZH, 2010-2017.

Member of search committees, habilitation committees, promotion committees etc.

Public Service

Member of `Schulkommission, Kantonsschule Wiedikon Zürich (KWI)' (since 2012).

`Findungskommissionen' Kantonsschule Wiedikon Zürich (KWI): Chemie fall 2017, Mathematik spring 2018.

External examiner for `Mündliche Maturitätsarbeiten', (KWI, June 2013).

Mandate for `Weiterentwicklung des Biorisiko-Katasters', Amt für Abfall, Wasser, Energie und Luft, Kanton Zürich (2012).

Contribution to `Junior Euler Society' U18, theme `Statistik' (2012).

Mandate for `Organische Schadstoffe für Kompost und Gärgut in der Schweiz', Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft, Zollikofen (2007).