Curriculum Vitae
Florian Gerber
Business Address
Institute of Mathematics
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich
Switzerland
Personal Data
Born: May 13th , 1986 in Biel, CH
Nationality: Swiss
Heimatort: Langnau i. E.
www.math.uzh.ch/as
florian.gerber@math.uzh.ch
+41 (0)44 635 58 92
Education
2013 – present PhD Student in Applied Statistics
Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich.
2011 – 2013
Master of Science in Biostatistics
Division of Biostatistics and Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich.
2006 – 2010
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (Major) and Philosophy (Minor)
University of Bern.
2007 – 2008
Interdisciplinary Studies in Ecology
Interfaculty Coordination Center for General Ecology, University of Bern.
2002 – 2006
Seeland Gymnasium, Biel.
Professional Experience
2012 – 2013
Junior Statistician at the Institute of Social & Preventive Medicine,
University of Bern
Causal modeling of data from the International epidemiological Databases to
Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) with focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
2012 – 2013
External Consultant for the Novartis Pharma AG, Basel
Development and maintenance of the R package gsbDesign, which implements
methods for the evaluate operating characteristics of Bayesian group sequential
clinical trial designs.
2011 – 2011
Statistical Trainee at the Institute of Social & Preventive Medicine,
University of Bern
Development of the R package gsbDesign and probability linkage for the Swiss
Childhood Cancer Registry (SCCR).
2009 – 2010
Part-time job in the day-nursery Ginkgo in Bern.
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Peer Reviewed Publications
S. Bratulic, F. Gerber, and A. Wagner. Mistranslation drives the evolution of robustness in tem-1
β-lactamase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1510071112
F. Gerber and R. Furrer. Pitfalls in the implementation of bayesian hierarchical modeling of areal
count data: An illustration using bym and leroux models. Journal of Statistical Software, Code
Snippets, 63(1):1–32, 2015. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v63/c01/
T. Bashir, C. Sailer, F. Gerber, N. Loganathan, H. Bhoopalan, C. Eichenberger, U. Grossniklaus, and B. Ramamurthy. Hybridization alters spontaneous mutation rates in a parent-oforigin-dependent fashion in arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology, 165(1):424–437, 2014. doi:
10.1104/pp.114.238451
T. Gsponer, F. Gerber, B. Bornkamp, D. Ohlssen, M. Vandemeulebroecke, and H. Schmidli. A
practical guide to Bayesian group sequential designs. Pharmaceutical Statistics, 13(1):71–80, 2014.
doi: 10.1002/pst.1593
F. Gerber, F. Marty, G. B. Eijkel, K. Basler, E. Brunner, R. Furrer, and R. M. A. Heeren.
Multiorder correction algorithms to remove image distortions from mass spectrometry imaging
data sets. Analytical Chemistry, 85(21):10249–10254, 2013. doi: 10.1021/ac402018e
G. Wandeler, F. Gerber, J. Rohr, B. Chi, C. Orrell, C. Chimbetete, H. Prozesky, A. Boulle,
C. Hoffmann, T. Gsponer, M. Fox, M. Zwahlen, M. Egger, and IeDEA Southern Africa. Tenofovir or
zidovudine in second-line antiretroviral therapy after stavudine failure in southern africa. Antiviral
Therapy, 2013. doi: 10.3851/imp2710
Software
Maintainer of the R package gsbDesign:
F. Gerber and T. Gsponer. gsbDesign: Group Sequential Bayes Design, 2013. URL http://
CRAN.R-project.org/package=gsbDesign. R package version 0.96-2
Contributions to the R package spam:
R. Furrer. spam: SPArse Matrix, 2013. URL http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=spam. R package version 0.41-0
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