Prof. dr. Paul Bürkner

Paul Bürkner is a leading statistician and methodologist in the field of Bayesian multilevel modeling. He currently is Professor of Computational Statistics in the Department of Statistics at TU Dortmund University where his research group develops novel probabilistic methods and tools for applied data analysis. He is widely recognized as the author and lead developer of the brms package for the R programming language, which provides a powerful and accessible interface to Bayesian multilevel models implemented in Stan. Through brms, Paul has played a central role in broadening the reach of Bayesian modeling within the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Paul’s scholarly contributions span topics such as Bayesian item response theory, simulation-based inference, and the integration of Bayesian workflow principles into applied research. His work has been published in leading statistical and methodological journals, and he actively contributes to the open-source software community.

Tentative title: Amortized Bayesian inference

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