Curriculum Vitae

Brief vita

Prof. Dr. Susanne Rässler

Apprenticeship (industrial clerk) at Siemens AG; Study of Business Administration majoring in Statistics and Business Informatics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Senior Research Assistant at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; 1995: conferral of a doctorate: Dr. rer. Pol.; 2001: postdoctoral lecture qualification for statistics and econometrics; April 2004 – August 2007: Head of the Competence Centre for Empirical Methods at the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research (IAB), Nuremberg; October 2004 – August 2007: Additional direction of the Department for Product and Program Analysis at the general office of the German Federal Labor Market Authority, Nuremberg; January 2007 – August 2007: Adjunct professor for Computational Statistics at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt/M.; summer term 2007: deputy professor cum spe at the Chair for Statistics and Econometrics at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg; since September 2007: at the Chair for Statistics and Econometrics at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.

Current activities

• Dean of the faculty for social sciences and economics since November 2008.
• Coordintor of the methods team of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS).
• Member of the Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) since November 2008.
• Member of the commission for the scientific consultancy of the official statistics and the Federal Government for the census 2001 (Census Commission) since August 2011.
• Member of the scientific advisory council of the computer center of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.
• Permanent visiting professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt/M.
• Erdös number: 4.

Research areas

• Impact of nonresponse; random and systematically missing data; development of completion techniques for complex samples; Missing data techniques
• Data fusion (aggregation of data from various sources without identifying key) and identifiability
• Splitting of questionnaires for the reduction of response intensity
• Data anonymization for the creation of scientific user files
• Estimation of economic productivity at the enterprise level
• Evaluation
• Sample theory
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, Bayes Statistics

Memberships in scientific associations

•  American Statistical Association (ASA)
•  German Statistical Association (DStatG)
•  International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)
•  Methodological Department of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
•  Founding member of the European Association of Methodology (EAM)

Activities as editor

• Since August 2003: Associate Editor of the Journal of Official Statistics (JOS)
  
• Since January 2007: Co-Editor of the AStA – (Archive of economics and social sciences)