Further professional activities
Prof. Stefan Sperlich
Prof. Stefan Sperlich
Creation of the Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science, 2022-2024
Negotiated Memorandum of Understanding between UNCTAD and University of Geneva; signed in 2016
Established regular joint research seminars with ILO (since 2015)
Creator and Director of the Massive Open Online Course managing Global Statistics: composite indices for international comparison in cooperation with KOF-ETH, UNCTAD, ITC, UNDP, and UNECE.
Creation of a University wide software consultancy for data processing, analysis and presentation for preparing the bachelor-, master- and diploma- thesis (jointly with Prof. Fred Böker), Georg-August University Göttingen, (foundation 2009)
EFRE-project Schlusselqualifikationen in der GGG (key qualifications in the GGG) for the Graduate school for human and social sciences (abbrev. GGG). Duration: 2009-2011. Participation ended with leave from Göttingen.
Co-founder of the Courant Research Center Poverty, Equity, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries: Statistical Methods, Empirical Analysis, and Policy Issues at the Georg-August University Göttingen, (founded 2008)
Foundation of the Service Center (jointly with the Vice-dean for teaching a airs and examination office) for the Students of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, (founded 2008)
Creation of the University wide statistical consulting office (with Prof. Walter Zucchini) for bachelor-, master-, and diploma-students, Georg-August University Göttingen, in 2007
Installation of a third-part-funded DAAD-professorship (jointly with Prof. Carlos San Juan Mesonada and the German Embassy) at the Economics Department at the University Carlos III de Madrid, 2006-2011
Director of the Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science RISIS at GSEM, University of Geneva; since 2024
Director of the Research Center for Statistics at GSEM, University of Geneva; 2021 - 2024.
Representative (deputy) of the GSEM in the COREC (Commission de recherche du Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique) and COPIL (Comite de pilotage) 2020.
Director of the Scientific Committee for the PhD program for Statistics since 2019.
Member of the Scientific Committee Master of Science in Business Analytics since 2019.
Member of the Scientific Committee Complementary Certificate in Applied Statistics 2019.
Director of the Geneva Summer School Evaluating Policy Interventions since 2016.
Member of the Scientific committee of the Bachelor for Economics and Management, 2015-2017, and since 2020.
Co-organizer of the Geneva Summer School Evaluating Policy Interventions 2015.
Coordinator of the scientific cooperations (area: statistics and econometrics) of the University with the international organizations at Geneva, since 2013.
Member of the Committee for the PhD programme in Econometrics, 2010-2017.
Co-organizer of the Luigi Solari Lectures at Uni Genève, 2012-2018.
Co-organizer of the Statistics Research Seminars at Uni Genève, 2012-2018.
Member of the Faculty Council, 2012-2017 (until 2013 faculty 'SES', since 2014 'FEM').
Organizer of the Economic Research Seminars at Uni Genève, 2011-2015.
Member of Library Commission, until 2014 for the SES, since 2019 for GSEM.
Dean (Dekan) of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Univ. Göttingen, 2010.
Vice dean for research (Forschungsdekan) of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, 2009-2010.
Member of the Faculty Council, 2007-2010 (president in 2010).
Vice speaker of the Center for Statistics Göttingen, 2007-2010.
Member of the Committee for the PhD programs at the Faculty of Economics, 2007-2010.
Vice dean for the academic exchange of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, 2004-2005.
From 2002 to 2004: Coordinator of the courses: Statistical Inference in the Licenciatura Estadística, Statistics and Techniques of Social Research in the Diplomatura Relaciones Laborales, and Survey Analysis in the Diplomatura Estadística
Organizer of the Econometric Research Seminars at Carlos III de Madrid, 2003-2006.
Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 3rd international AI2S2 (AI for Industry, Science and Society) conference, 2023 at Geneva.
Committee member for Prix Lambert of the Swiss Statistical Society since 2023
Member of directory board of the Swiss Evaluation Society SEVAL, since 2019
Co-organizer of the Annual SEVAL Meeting 2022, Fribourg, Switzerland
Editorial Board member of the Spanish Journal of Statistics: The official Journal of The National Statistics Institute of Spain, INE since 2019
Teaching classification methods in CAS MIA (infrastructure asset management) since 2019.
Member of the scientific committee of the statistics & probability section of CUSO (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale) since 2018.
Member of the board of directors of the European Regional Section (ERS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) since 2018.
Member of the Program Committee for the ISNPS (international Society for NonParametric Statistics) meeting 2018 in Salerno, Italy.
Member of the commission for awarding the Ramón y Cajal grants 2016-17 in Mathematics, (MTM), Spain.
Member of the Scientific Committees of the CFE-CMStatistics Conferences 2016 and 2017.
Member of the commission for awarding the Juan de la Cierva grants 2016-17 in Mathematics (MTM), Spain.
Chair of the Local Organizing Committee Member for the EEA/ESEM 2016, Geneva.
Research Fellow of the Center for Evaluation and Development, Mannheim, Germany
Member of the Organizing & Scientific Committe of the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) Seminar on leading, composite and sentiment indicators 2015 (UN Genève)
Member of the committee of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015
Scientific Committee Member, Swiss Statistics Meeting 2015 and Swiss Society for Economic and Statistics in 2019
Member of the 'Conseil de la statistique cantonale de Genève', 2014 - 2018.
Local Organizing Committee Member, COMPSTAT 2014 (Genève).
Organizer of (special) invited session for different international congresses like the International Statistical Institute Meetings, Meetings of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics or the CFE-CMStatistics.
Designated 'Ambassadeur' of Geneva 2014 - 2017.
Co-organizer with R. Winkler and K. Neusser of the Young Swiss Economists Meeting 2014 (Berne)
YSEM scientific committee member and discussant since 2013 (yearly)
Evaluator of Research Projects and institutions for the National Science Foundations of Spain (since 2000), Belgium (since 2010), France (since 2014), and Italy (since 2016).
Eventual evaluations of research projects for the National Science Foundations of the US, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Associate Editor of Sankhya B, 2012-2016.
Executive board member of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (member of the Swiss Academy of humanities and social sciences), 2011-2017.
Working Group core member of the Dryland Science for Development consortium for preparing the scientific section of COP-9 of the UNCCD-CST (United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification Committee on Science and Technology), 2009-2010.
Associate Editor of TEST, since 2009.
Chair of Scientific Committee, Advances in Semiparametric Methods and Applications - Satellite meeting of ISI 2007 in Lisbon.
Organizer of the Spanish-German Meeting of Statistics & Econometrics. July 2007 in Göttingen, Germany.
Scientific Committee Member, ESEM 2004 (Madrid), ESEM 2006 (Vienna), ASMA 2007 (Lisbon), ISNI 2008 (Vigo), Applicable Semiparametrics 2013 (Berlin), etc.
Local Organizing Committee Member of the EEA-ESEM 2004, Madrid.
Editor of focus, a quarterly publication of the IFL de Estudios Avanzados en Economía, 2001-2003.
Annals of Statistics, J. of the Royal Statistical Society B, JASA, Econometric Theory, Bernoulli, Biometrika, Econometrica, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, J. of Stat. Planning and Inference, European Economic Review, Statistics and Computing, J. Multivariate Analysis, Statistics, Test, Nonparametric statistics, Empirical Economics, Income and Wealth, Annals of the Stat. Inst. of Tokyo, J. of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Computational Statistics, Communications in Statistics, Journal of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Metrika, Sankhya B, J. of Agricultural Biometrical and Environmental Statistics, Sarhad J. of Agriculture, European J. of Operational Research, J. of Development Economics, Springer books, AStA, J. of Econometrics, and many others