About me
Mini-CV:
PhD, Statistics, 2008, University of Oslo, Norway
MSc, Applied Mathematics / Statistics, 2003, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
2023 (November) - current: Specialist in statistics / data science, TM Insurance, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2017 (September) - 2023 (October): Research scientist at deCODE genetics, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2016 - 2017 (August): Research scholar (Fræðimaður, equivalent to Research Associate Professor) in Statistics at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2015: Researcher at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
2014: Research scholar (Fræðimaður, equivalent to Research Associate Professor) in Statistics at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2007 - 2013: Research scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral), Oslo, Norway.
You can contact me at egil.ferkingstad@gmail.com
Publications (with links to full text PDF files):
Egil Ferkingstad, Patrick Sulem, Bjarni A. Atlason, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Magnus I. Magnusson, Edda L. Styrmisdottir, Kristbjorg Gunnarsdottir, Agnar Helgason, Asmundur Oddsson, Bjarni V. Halldorsson, Brynjar O. Jensson, Florian Zink, Gisli H. Halldorsson, Gisli Masson, Gudny A. Arnadottir, Hildigunnur Katrinardottir, Kristinn Juliusson, Magnus K. Magnusson, Olafur Th. Magnusson, Run Fridriksdottir, Saedis Saevarsdottir, Sigurjon A. Gudjonsson, Simon N. Stacey, Solvi Rognvaldsson, Thjodbjorg Eiriksdottir, Thorunn A. Olafsdottir, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Vinicius Tragante, Magnus O. Ulfarsson, Hreinn Stefansson, Ingileif Jonsdottir, Hilma Holm, Thorunn Rafnar, Pall Melsted, Jona Saemundsdottir, Gudmundur L. Norddahl, Sigrun H. Lund, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir & Kari Stefansson. Large-scale integration of the plasma proteome with genetics and disease. Nature Genetics, volume 53, pages 1712–1721, 2021.
Joseph Dowsett, Egil Ferkingstad, Line Jee Hartmann Rasmussen, Lise Wegner Thørner, Magnús K Magnússon, Karen Sugden, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Mike Frigge, Kristoffer Sølvsten Burgdorf, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Erik Sørensen, Christian Erikstrup, Ole Birger Pedersen, Thomas Folkmann Hansen, Karina Banasik, Søren Brunak, Vinicius Tragante, Sigrun Helga Lund, Lilja Stefansdottir, Bjarni Gunnarson, Richie Poulton, Louise Arseneault, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E Moffitt, Daníel Gudbjartsson, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Hreinn Stefánsson, Kári Stefánsson, Henrik Ullum. Eleven genomic loci affect plasma levels of chronic inflammation marker soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor. Communications Biology, 2021
Steven Bell, Andreas S Rigas, Magnus K Magnusson, Egil Ferkingstad, Elias Allara, ..., Karina Banasik, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Willem H Ouwehand, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, David J Roberts, Patrick Sulem, Adam S Butterworth, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, John Danesh, Søren Brunak, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Henrik Ullum, Kari Stefansson. A genome-wide meta-analysis yields 46 new loci associating with biomarkers of iron homeostasis. Communications Biology, 2021
Thjodbjorg Eiriksdottir, Steinthor Ardal, Benedikt A Jonsson, Sigrun H Lund, Erna V Ivarsdottir, Kristjan Norland, Egil Ferkingstad, Hreinn Stefansson, Ingileif Jonsdottir, Hilma Holm, Thorunn Rafnar, Jona Saemundsdottir, Gudmundur L Norddahl, Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Patrick Sulem, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson, Magnus O Ulfarsson. Predicting the probability of death using proteomics. Communications Biology, 2021
Anna Helgadottir, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Kristjan F Alexandersson, Vinicius Tragante, Margret Thorsteinsdottir, Finnur F Eiriksson, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Eythór Björnsson, Olafur Magnusson, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Ingileif Jonsdottir, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Egil Ferkingstad, ..., Patrick Sulem, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, Hilma Holm, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Kari Stefansson. Genetic variability in the absorption of dietary sterols affects the risk of coronary artery disease. European Heart Journal, Volume 41, Issue 28, Pages 2618–2628, 2020.
Gudjon R Oskarsson, Asmundur Oddsson, Magnus K Magnusson, Ragnar P Kristjansson, Gisli H Halldorsson, Egil Ferkingstad, Florian Zink, Anna Helgadottir, ... , Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Gudmundur L Norddahl, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Patrick Sulem, Kari Stefansson. Predicted loss and gain of function mutations in ACO1 are associated with erythropoiesis. Communications Biology 3, Article number: 189, 2020.
Sandya Liyanarachchi, Julius Gudmundsson, Egil Ferkingstad, Huiling He, Jon G. Jonasson, Vinicius Tragante, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Li Xu, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Romana T. Netea-Maier, Jose I. Mayordomo, Theo S. Plantinga, Hannes Hjartarson, Jon Hrafnkelsson, Erich M. Sturgis, Pamela Brock, Fadi Nabhan, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Matthew D. Ringel, Kari Stefansson and Albert de la Chapelle. Assessing thyroid cancer risk using polygenic risk scores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2020.
Stefania Salvatore, Knut Dagestad Rand, Ivar Grytten, Egil Ferkingstad, Diana Eva Domanska, Lars Holden, Marius Gheorghe, Anthony Mathelier, Ingrid Glad, Geir Kjetil Sandve. Beware the Jaccard: the choice of similarity measure is important and non-trivial in genomic colocalisation analysis. Briefings in Bioinformatics, bbz083, 2019.
Egil Ferkingstad, Asmundur Oddsson, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Stefania Benonisdottir, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Aimee M Deaton, Stefan Jonsson, Olafur A. Stefansson, Gudmundur L. Norddahl, Florian Zink, Gudny A. Arnadottir, Bjarni Gunnarsson, Gisli H. Halldorsson, Anna Helgadottir, Brynjar O. Jensson, Ragnar P. Kristjansson, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, David A. Sverrisson, Gisli Masson, Isleifur Olafsson, Gudmundur I. Eyjolfsson, Olof Sigurdardottir, Hilma Holm, Ingileif Jonsdottir, Sigurdur Olafsson, Thora Steingrimsdottir, Thorunn Rafnar, Einar S. Bjornsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Patrick Sulem and Kari Stefansson. Genome-wide association meta-analysis yields 20 loci associated with gallstone disease. Nature Communications 9, Article number: 5101, 2018.
Egil Ferkingstad, Leonhard Held and Håvard Rue. Fast and accurate Bayesian model criticism and conflict diagnostics using R-INLA. Stat 6:331-344, 2017.
Boris Simovski, Daniel Vodák, Sveinung Gundersen, Diana Domanska, Abdulrahman Azab, Lars Holden, Marit Holden, Ivar Grytten, Knut Rand, Finn Drabløs, Morten Johansen, Antonio Mora, Christin Lund-Andersen, Bastian Fromm, Ragnhild Eskeland, Odd Stokke Gabrielsen, Egil Ferkingstad, Sigve Nakken, Mads Bengtsen, Alexander Johan Nederbragt, Hildur Sif Thorarensen, Johannes Andreas Akse, Ingrid Glad, Eivind Hovig and Geir Kjetil Sandve. GSuite HyperBrowser: integrative analysis of dataset collections across the genome and epigenome. GigaScience, 6(7):1-12, 2017.
Egil Ferkingstad, Oli Pall Geirsson, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Olafur Birgir Davidsson and Sigurdur Magnus Gardarsson. A Bayesian hierarchical model for monthly maxima of instantaneous flow. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07667 [stat.AP], 2016.
Egil Ferkingstad and Håvard Rue. Improving the INLA approach for approximate Bayesian inference for latent Gaussian models. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 9(2):2706-2731, 2015. Winner of "Jeffreys Poster Excellence Award" at O'Bayes15, Valencia.
Egil Ferkingstad, Lars Holden, and Geir Kjetil Sandve. Monte Carlo null models for genomic data. Statistical Science, 30(1):59-71, 2015.
Halfdan Rydbeck, Geir Kjetil Sandve, Egil Ferkingstad, Boris Simovski, Morten Rye, and Eivind Hovig. ClusTrack: Feature extraction and similarity measures for clustering of genome-wide data sets. PLoS ONE, 10(4):e0123261, 2015.
Ida Scheel, Egil Ferkingstad, Arnoldo Frigessi, Ola Haug, Mikkel Hinnerichsen, and Elisabeth Meze-Hausken. A Bayesian hierarchical model with spatial variable selection: the effect of weather on insurance claims. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 62(1):85-100, 2013.
Geir K Sandve, Sveinung Gundersen, Morten Johansen, Ingrid K Glad, Krishanthi Gunathasan, Lars Holden, Marit Holden, Knut Liestøl, Ståle Nygård, Vegard Nygaard, Jonas Paulsen, Halfdan Rydbeck, Kai Trengereid, Trevor Clancy, Finn Drabløs, Egil Ferkingstad, Matus Kalas, Tonje Lien, Morten B. Rye, Arnoldo Frigessi and Eivind Hovig. The Genomic HyperBrowser: an analysis web server for genome-scale data. Nucleic acids research, 41(W1):W133-W141, 2013.
Anders Løland, Egil Ferkingstad, and Mathilde Wilhelmsen. Forecasting transmission congestion. Journal of Energy Markets, 5(3):65-83, 2012.
Egil Ferkingstad, Anders Løland, and Mathilde Wilhelmsen. Causal modeling and inference for electricity markets. Energy Economics, 33(3):404-412, 2011.
Geir Kjetil Sandve, Egil Ferkingstad, and Ståle Nygård. Sequential Monte Carlo multiple testing. Bioinformatics, 27(23):3235-3241, 2011.
Geir K Sandve, Sveinung Gundersen, Halfdan Rydbeck, Ingrid K Glad, Lars Holden, Marit Holden, Knut Liestøl, Trevor Clancy, Finn Drabløs, Egil Ferkingstad, et al. The differential disease regulome. BMC genomics, 12(1):353, 2011.
Geir K Sandve, Sveinung Gundersen, Halfdan Rydbeck, Ingrid K Glad, Lars Holden, Marit Holden, Knut Liestøl, Trevor Clancy, Egil Ferkingstad, Morten Johansen, et al. The genomic hyperbrowser: inferential genomics at the sequence level. Genome biology, 11(12):R121, 2010.
Glenn Lawyer, Egil Ferkingstad, Ragnar Nesvåg, Katarina Varnäs, and Ingrid Agartz. Local and covariate-modulated false discovery rates applied in neuroimaging. NeuroImage, 47(1):213-219, 2009.
Egil Ferkingstad, Arnoldo Frigessi, Håvard Rue, Gudmar Thorleifsson, and Augustine Kong. Unsupervised empirical Bayesian multiple testing with external covariates. The Annals of Applied Statistics, pages 714-735, 2008. Winner of 2007 David Byar Young Investigator Award.
Egil Ferkingstad, Arnoldo Frigessi, and Heidi Lyng. Indirect genomic effects on survival from gene expression data. Genome biology, 9(3):R58, 2008.
Johan Fosen, Egil Ferkingstad, Ørnulf Borgan, and Odd O Aalen. Dynamic path analysis—a new approach to analyzing time-dependent covariates. Lifetime data analysis, 12(2):143-167, 2006.
Mette Langaas, Bo Henry Lindqvist, and Egil Ferkingstad. Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses, with application to DNA microarray data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 67(4):555-572, 2005.