Stephen Senn's Biography

Prof. Stephen Senn, Ph.D.

Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics, CRP-Santé, Luxembourg

Stephen Senn is currently head of the Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics

at CRP-Santé in Luxembourg, a position he has held since autumn 2011. Originally from

Switzerland, he was until recently Professor of Statistics at the University of Glasgow, a

post he held since 2003. He was Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Statistics at

University College London from 1995 to 2003. He has also worked in the Swiss

pharmaceutical industry, as a lecturer and senior lecturer in Dundee, Scotland, and for the

National Health Service in England.

In 2001 he was the first recipient of the George C Challis award for Biostatistics at the

University of Florida, in 2008 he gave the Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture at the London

School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in 2009 he was awarded the Bradford Hill Medal

by the Royal Statistical Society, and in 2013 he gave the John Nelder memorial lecture at

Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an honorary

life member of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI), and the International

Society for Clinical Biostatistics.

He is the author of the monographs Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research (1993, 2002),

Statistical Issues in Drug Development (1997, 2007), Dicing with Death (2003) and more

than 200 scientific publications.