Home Services People About us


The backbone of the Karolinska Institutet Biostatistics Core Facility are its biostatisticians. The quality of the provided service ultimately depends on them. Their competence and happiness are of utmost importance to us.

Director


Prof. Matteo Bottai, Karolinska Institutet

Advisory Board


Prof. Johan Askling, Karolinska Institutet
Prof. Anders Ekbom, Karolinska Institutet
Prof. Maria Feychting, Karolinska Institutet
Prof. Per Tornvall, Karolinska Institutet

Coordinator


Johanna Aspsäter, johanna.aspsater@ki.se

Anna


anna.olofsson.2@ki.se

Anna Olofsson has a Master's degree in statistics from Stockholm University. She has experience in the analysis of large datasets, genetic data, infectious diseases, and other statisitcal methods.

Ann Louise


annlouise.jensen@ki.se

Ann Louise Jensen has a Bachelor's degree in statistics from Stockholm University. She has collaborated with colleagues with different background and has extensive experience with managing large data sets and woriking with authorities on processes and reports.

Azadeh


azadeh.chizarifard@ki.se

Azadeh Chizarifard has a doctoral degree in statsitics from Stockholm University. Her interests hinge around statistical analysis and data management plans, data science and machine learning, statistical modeling, and collaborating with clinical development and medical researchers.

Hassan


mahmood.ul.hassan@ki.se

Mahmood Ul Hassan has a doctoral degree in statistics and a master of science degree with major in statistics from Stockholm University. He has extensive knowledge of statistics with special interest in computational statistics, multivariate methods, machine learning models, and classification techniques. He also has experience in teaching at the undergraduate and master levels.

Ivette


ivette.raices.cruz@ki.se

Ivette Raices Cruz has a doctoral degree in environmental science from Lund University and a Master's degree in applied mathematics, probability and statistics from the University of Havana, Cuba. She has experience as a clinical trial statistician and experise in Bayesian modeling, statistical analysis of clinical trials and methods for evidence synthesis such as pairwise and network meta-analysis. She is passionate about statistics and broadly interested in its applications in medicine.

Jane


jane.yan@ki.se

Jane Yan has a Master's in global health from Karolinska Institutet. She has experience in statistical modeling in different areas ranging from multistage biosystems to latent class models, surival models, and generalized estimating equations, and marginal structural models.

Martin


martin.björklund@ki.se

Martin Björklund has a master's degree in statsitics from Stockholm University. He has experience in teaching to non-statstical students, statistical analysis in pharmaceutical research, and machine learning.

Nils


nils.eckerdal@ki.se

Nils Eckerdal has a master's degree in statsitics from Stockholm University. He has experience on causal inference, experimental designs, and survival analysis.

Pär


par.villner@ki.se

Pär Villner has a Master's degree in mathematical statistics from Stockholm University. He has experience in statistical consulting in health and medicine. Her research interests include statistical methods for combining data and information from heterogeneous sources.

Sara


sara.freyland@ki.se

Sara Freyland has a Master's degree in statistics from Uppsala University. She has experience in the analysis of extreme value distributions, time series, and other statisitcal methods.