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Chair

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rahnenführer

Contact

TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity
Department of Sta­tis­tics
Statistical Methods in Genetics and Chemometrics
Mathematics Building, Room 720
44221 Dortmund
Germany

E-Mail: rahnenfuehrerstatistik.tu-dortmundde
Phone: +49 231 755 3121

Portrait photo of Jörg Rahnenführer © Felix Schmale​/​TU Dortmund
  • Habilitation (Bioinformatics), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 2006
    Thesis: Statistical methods for the biological interpretation of genome-wide measurements
  • Dr.rer.nat. (Mathematics), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 1999
    Thesis: Tests auf Unabhängigkeit in bivariaten Hazardmodellen mit zensierten Daten
  • Diploma (Mathematics), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 1995
    Thesis: Über die Gütefunktion des Kolmogoroff-Smirnov-Tests beim Signalerkennungsproblem

Scientific work

Third-party funded projects

Main areas of re­search

  • Statistical methods in toxicology
  • Statistical methods in bioinformatics
  • Statistical analysis of gene expression data
  • Statistical analysis of clinical data
  • Survival analysis (analysis of event times)

Specific current re­search topics

  • Statistical analysis of genomic data from toxicology
  • Modeling of dose-response relationships
  • Statistical analysis of genomic data for cancer diagnosis and therapy
  • Methods for biological interpretation of gene expression data
  • Statistical analysis of data from proteomics
  • Analysis of methods for variable selection
  • Analysis of large text collections using topic modeling

Location & approach

The campus of TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity is located close to interstate junction Dort­mund West, where the Sauerlandlinie A45 (Frankfurt-Dort­mund) crosses the Ruhrschnellweg B1 / A40. The best interstate exit to take from A45 is “Dort­mund-Eichlinghofen” (closer to South Cam­pus), and from B1 / A40 “Dort­mund-Dorstfeld” (closer to North Cam­pus). Signs for the uni­ver­si­ty are located at both exits. Also, there is a new exit before you pass over the B1-bridge leading into Dort­mund.

For travelling to the Department of Statistics, convenient parking places can be found at Vogelpothsweg (Gates 21 / 24) or alternatively at the Otto-Hahn-Straße (Gates 28 / 30 / 35).

TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity has its own train station (“Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät”). From there, suburban trains (S-Bahn) leave for Dort­mund main station (“Dort­mund Hauptbahnhof”) and Düsseldorf main station via the “Düsseldorf Airport Train Station” (take S-Bahn number 1, which leaves every 15 or 30 minutes). The uni­ver­si­ty is easily reached from Bo­chum, Essen, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Duis­burg.

You can also take the bus or subway train from Dort­mund city to the uni­ver­si­ty: From Dort­mund main station, you can take any train bound for the Station “Stadtgarten”, usually lines U41, U45, U 47 and U49. At “Stadtgarten” you switch trains and get on line U42 towards “Hombruch”. Look out for the Station “An der Palmweide”. From the bus stop just across the road, busses bound for TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity leave every ten minutes (445, 447 and 462). Another option is to take the subway routes U41, U45, U47 and U49 from Dort­mund main station to the stop “Dort­mund Kampstraße”. From there, take U43 or U44 to the stop “Dort­mund Wittener Straße”. Switch to bus line 447 and get off at “Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S”.

The H-Bahn is one of the hallmarks of TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity. There are two stations on North Cam­pus. One (“Dort­mund Uni­ver­si­tät S”) is directly located at the suburban train stop, which connects the uni­ver­si­ty directly with the city of Dort­mund and the rest of the Ruhr Area. Also from this station, there are connections to the “Technologiepark” and (via South Cam­pus) Eichlinghofen. The other station is located at the dining hall at North Cam­pus and offers a direct connection to South Cam­pus every five minutes.

The AirportExpress is a fast and convenient means of transport from Dort­mund Airport (DTM) to Dort­mund Central Station, taking you there in little more than 20 minutes. From Dort­mund Central Station, you can continue to the uni­ver­si­ty campus by interurban railway (S-Bahn). A larger range of in­ter­na­tio­nal flight connections is offered at Düsseldorf Airport (DUS), which is about 60 kilometres away and can be directly reached by S-Bahn from the uni­ver­si­ty station.

Interactive map

The facilities of TU Dortmund University are spread over two campuses, the larger Campus North and the smaller Campus South. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".

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