Welcome to Claus Ekstrøm's homepage

I am associate professor in statistics at the Department of Basic Sciences and Environment at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
My work involves research, teaching and statistical consulting.

Research Interests

My current research interests are:

• Analysis of quantitative traits for complex human families using mixed models.
• QTL analysis in the presence of heterogeneity and gene*environment interaction. Genetic marker error detection.
• Simulation-based inference. MCMC methods.
• Analysis of microarray DNA chips.
• Image analysis --- in particular related to analysis of microarray spot shapes
• Analysis of metabolic profiles

I'm the leader of the Faculty's Center for Applied Bioinformatics.

Teaching

• Introduction to R --- halfday introductory course to R for employees and Ph.D students at LIFE.
• Statistisk Dataanalyse 1
• Bioinformatik 1.
• Bioinformatics 2.
• Genetik og molekylær genetik.

I'm also currently involved in a government funded programme about online methods for teaching statistics.

Study groups

(These are slightly old)

• Judea Pearl: Causality. Models, reasoning, and inference.
• Joseph Felsenstein: Inferring phylogenies.

Address

I can be contacted at:

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Department of Basic Sciences and Environment
Thorvaldsensvej 40
1871 Frederiksberg C
Denmark

TLF:        +45 3533 2341
FAX:       +45 3533 2350
e-mail    ekstrom@life.ku.dk