Geert Molenberghs
Geert Molenberghs is Professor of Biostatistics at the Universiteit Hasselt and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics (1988) and a Ph.D. in biostatistics (1993) from the Universiteit Antwerpen. Geert Molenberghs published methodological work on surrogate markers in clinical trials, categorical data, longitudinal data analysis, and on the analysis of non-response in clinical and epidemiological studies. He served as Joint Editor for Applied Statistics (2001-2004) and as Associate Editor for several journals, including Biometrics and Biostatistics. He currently is Co-Editor of Biometrics (2007-2009). He was President of the International Biometric Society (2004-2005) and currently is Vice-President (2006). He was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and received the Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society. He is elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has held visiting positions at the Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA).
Geert Molenberghs co-authored books on linear mixed models for longitudinal data (Springer, 2000, with Geert Verbeke), on models for discrete longitudinal data (Springer, 2005, with Geert Verbeke), on surrogate marker evaluation in clinical trials (Springer, 2005, with Tomasz Burzykowski and Marc Buyse), and on missing data in clinical trials (Wiley, 2007, with Michael G Kenward). He is a regular short course instructor on the themes of longitudinal and incomplete data, and on surrogate markers. He received the American Statistical Association's Excellence in Continuing Education Award based on short courses on longitudinal and incomplete data at the Joint Statistical Meetings of 2002, 2004, and 2005. He received a Belgian Francqui Chair from the Agricultural Faculty in Gembloux. Geert Molenberghs is founding director of the Center for Statistics (CenStat) of Universiteit Hasselt and currently vice-director of both CenStat and the Biostatistical Centre of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is also the director of the International Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics (IB2), a joint initiative of both universities.