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Krista Fischer
Krista Fischer (born 5 August 1970) is an Estonian biostatistics, biostatistician whose research concerns body mass, genetic variability, and their association with diseases. She is a professor of mathematical statistics in the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Tartu, where she is also an associate professor in the Institute of Genomics. Education and career Fischer was an undergraduate at the University of Tartu, specializing in mathematics and statistics, from 1988 to 1992. After earning a master's degree in mathematical statistics at Hasselt University, Limburg University in Belgium in 1994, she returned to Tartu for doctoral study, completing her Ph.D. in 1999. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium, and became an associate professor of public health at the University of Tartu in 2001, becoming a senior lecturer there in 2006. She worked as a senior researcher at the Estonian Genome Project, Estonian Genome Center at the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Tartu
The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest and most prestigious university. It was founded under the name of ''Academia Gustaviana'' in 1632 by Baron Johan Skytte, the Swedish Governors-General, Governor-General (1629–1634) of Swedish Livonia, Swedish Ingria, Ingria, and Karelia (historical province of Finland), Karelia, with the required ratification provided by his long-time friend and former student – from age 7 –, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, shortly before the king's death on 6 November in the Battle of Lützen (1632), during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). Nearly 14,000 students are at the university, of whom over 1,300 are foreign students. The language of instruction in most curricula is Estonian, some more notable exceptions are taught in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
