Iris Pigeot-Kübler (born 1960) is a German

biostatistician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

, biometrician, and

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and risk factor, determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decision ...

. She is the director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

, and the president-elect of the

International Biometric Society The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including biostatistics. It sponsors ...

Education and career

Pigeot was born in 1960, in

Wanne-Eickel Herne () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. History Like most other cities in the region, Herne (ancient Haranni) was a tiny village until the ...

, a town in northwestern Germany that in 1975 became incorporated into Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia. She earned a diploma in statistics and sociology at the

Technical University of Dortmund TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's an ...

in 1985. She completed her Ph.D. there in 1989, with the dissertation ''Schätzer des gemeinsamen Odds Ratios in geschichteten Kontingenztafeln'' 'Estimator of the joint odds ratio in stratified contingency tables''supervised by Ursula Gather. She received a

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in 1993. She became an assistant professor at the Technical University of Dortmund, and then in 1995 a professor at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. In 2001, Pigeot joined the Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS, now the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology), at the same time taking a professorship at the University of Bremen, which controlled part of the institute. At the Leibniz Institute, she became head of the Department of Biometry and Data Management. In 2004, she became director of the institute. In 2007, under her directorship, the separated parts of the institute were rejoined, and in 2012 it spun off from the university to become a separate non-profit institution within the Leibniz Association. Pigeot was elected to the presidency of the International Biometric Society in 2022, for the 2024 term.

Recognition

Pigeot was the 2010 recipient of the Susanne Dahms Medal of the International Biometric Society (German Region). In 2020, she was given the Great Medal of the University of Rzeszów in Poland.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pigeot, Iris 1960 births Living people People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia German statisticians Women statisticians German epidemiologists Women epidemiologists Biostatisticians Technical University of Dortmund alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff of the University of Bremen