Prof. Dr. Björn Christensen

Portrait of Björn Christensen© M. Hanke

Statistics und Mathematics

Sokratesplatz 1
24149 Kiel
Room: C01-3.07

Prof. Dr. Björn Christensen teaches at the Institute of Statistics and Operations Research at the Faculty of Business at Kiel University of Applied Sciences and serves as President of the university.

Information about the individual courses can be found in the module database.

Since July 2020: President of Kiel University of Applied Sciences

September 2018 – June 2020: Dean of the Faculty of Business at Kiel University of Applied Sciences

Since September 2017: Associate member at Europa-Universität Flensburg (suspended since August 2020)

September 2016 – August 2018: Vice Dean for Research and Teaching at the Faculty of Business at Kiel University of Applied Sciences

Since August 2013: Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at the Faculty of Business at Kiel University of Applied Sciences

2009 – 2013: Founder and Managing Director of meteolytix GmbH

2005 – 2013: Founder and Managing Director of analytix GmbH

2004: Doctorate (Dr. sc. pol.) under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Siebert

2000 – 2005: Research Associate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, specializing in the statistical analysis of individual data

1995 – 2000: Studies in Economics with a quantitative focus at Kiel University (CAU), degree: Diplom

 

Research interests: applied quantitative methods, data mining, predictive analytics, big data analytics, quantitative market research, demographic-based simulations, statistics in court, 2011 census, statistics for journalists