Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

• Andrea Kraus, née Andrea Kvitkovičová
• Born in 1983, Prešov, Slovakia

Department

• Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
  Faculty of Science
  Masaryk University
  Kotlářská 2
  611 73 Brno
  Czech Republic

Position

• Assistant Professor

Education

• 2009-2013: PhD in Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2006-2008: M.Sc. in Biostatistics, Hasselt University, Belgium
• 2002-2008: Mgr. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Mathematical statistics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Professional Experience

• 2017- : Assistant Professor at Masaryk University
• 2015-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher at Masaryk University
• 2013-2015: Research Associate at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2013-2014: Research Associate at University of Zurich, Switzerland
• 2009-2013: Research Assistant at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland

Teaching

• 2015- : Lecturer and teaching assistant at Masaryk university
• 2013: Lecturer at a four-day course on Markov models at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2009-2014: Teaching assistant in charge of exercise sessions to various courses in Mathematics and Statistics on bachelor and master level at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, University of Lausanne and University of Zurich, Switzerland
• 2013-2014: Supervisor of semester projects in Statistics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland

Professional activities abroad

• 03/2015--06/2015: Postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland
• 09/2013--08/2014: Postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland
• 04/2013--04/2014: Research associate and teaching assistant at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• 09/2009--09/2013: PhD student, research and teaching assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland

Awards and Honours

• 2013: Johann Heinrich Lambert Award for Young Statisticians: awarded by the Swiss Statistical Society
• 2011: Dean's award for excellent teaching results: awarded by the dean of Faculty of Basic Sciences at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• 2008: Quetelet Prize for a most outstanding M.Sc. thesis in Biostatistics: awarded by the Belgian Statistical Society
• 2008: Dean's Prize for the best master thesis: awarded by the dean of Faculty of mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague
• 2006: Best student's contribution at the meeting of Czech and Slovak statisticians Robust 2006
• 2006: Third best paper in the category Probability Theory, Statistics, Econometrics and Financial Mathematics at the SVOČ competition for students of Czech and Slovak universities

Major Publications

• DAVISON, Anthony, Sophie HAUTPHENNE and Andrea KRAUS. Parameter estimation for discretely-observed linear birth-and-death processes. Biometrics. Hoboken: Wiley, 2021, vol. 77, No 1, p. 186-196. ISSN 0006-341X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/biom.13282. URL info
• BURKART, Tiziana L, Andrea KRAUS, Brigitte KOLLER, Giancarlo NATALUCCI, Beatrice LATAL, Jean-Claude FAUCHÈRE, Hans Ulrich BUCHER and Christoph M RÜEGGER. Placebo by Proxy in Neonatal Randomized Controlled Trials: Does It Matter? Children-Basel. BASEL, SWITZERLAND: MDPI AG, 2017, vol. 4, No 6, p. "nestránkováno", 8 pp. ISSN 2227-9067. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children4060043. URL info
• MANSER, Christine N., Andrea KRAUS, Thomas FREI, Gerhard ROGLER and Leonhard HELD. The Impact of Cold Spells on the Incidence of Infectious Gastroenteritis and Relapse Rates of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Retrospective Controlled Observational Study. Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases. Basilej, Švýcarsko: Karger, 2017, vol. 2, No 2, p. 124-130. ISSN 2296-9403. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000477807. URL info
• JENSEN, Kai Oliver, Leonhard HELD, Andrea KRAUS, Frank HILDEBRAND, Philipp MOMMSEN, Ladislav MICA, Guido A WANNER, Peter STEIGER, Rudolf M MOOS, Hans-Peter SIMMEN and Kai SPRENGEL. The impact of mild induced hypothermia on the rate of transfusion and the mortality in severely injured patients: a retrospective multi-centre study. European Journal of Medical Research. London: Biomed Central, 2016, vol. 21, No 37. ISSN 0949-2321. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40001-016-0233-x. URL info
• SAGUNER, AM, S GANAHL, Andrea KRAUS, SH BALDINGER, D AKDIS, AR SAGUNER, T WOLBER, LM HAEGELI, J STEFFEL, N KRASNIQI, TF LUSCHER, FC TANNER, C BRUNCKHORST and F DURU. Electrocardiographic features of disease progression in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. London: Biomed Central Ltd, 2015, vol. 15, 9 pp. ISSN 1471-2261. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-15. URL info
• SAGUNER, AM, S GANAHL, Andrea KRAUS, SH BALDINGER, A MEDEIROS-DOMINGO, AR SAGUNER, SA MUELLER-BURRI, T WOLBER, LM HAEGELI, N KRASNIQI, FC TANNER, J STEFFEL, C BRUNCKHORST and F DURU. Clinical Role of Atrial Arrhythmias in Patients With Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia. Circulation Journal. Tokyo: Japanese Circulation Soc, 2014, vol. 78, No 12, p. 2854-2861. ISSN 1346-9843. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1253/circj.CJ-14-0474. info
• KRAUS, Andrea and VM PANARETOS. Frequentist estimation of an epidemic's spreading potential when observations are scarce. Biometrika. Oxford: Oxford Univ Press, 2014, vol. 101, No 1, p. 141-154. ISSN 0006-3444. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biomet/ast049. info
• RUEEGGER, CM, Andrea KRAUS, B KOLLER, G NATALUCCI, B LATAL, E WALDESBUEHL, JC FAUCHERE, L HELD and HU BUCHER. Randomized Controlled Trials in Very Preterm Infants: Does Inclusion in the Study Result in Any Long-Term Benefit? Neonatology. Basel: Karger, 2014, vol. 106, No 2, p. 114-119. ISSN 1661-7800. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000362784. info
• SAGUNER, AM, S GANAHL, SH BALDINGER, Andrea KRAUS, A MEDEIROS-DOMINGO, S NORDBECK, AR SAGUNER, AS MUELLER-BURRI, LM HAEGELI, T WOLBER, J STEFFEL, N KRASNIQI, E DELACRETAZ, TF LUSCHER, L HELD, CB BRUNCKHORST and F DURU. Usefulness of Electrocardiographic Parameters for Risk Prediction in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia. American Journal of Cardiology. Bridgewater: Excerpta Medica Inc-Elsevier Science Inc, 2014, vol. 113, No 10, p. 1728-1734. ISSN 0002-9149. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.02.031. info
• KVITKOVIČOVÁ, Andrea and VM PANARETOS. Asymptotic Inference for Partially Observed Branching Processes. Advances in Applied Probability. Sheffield: Applied Probability Trust, 2011, vol. 43, No 4, p. 1166-1190. ISSN 0001-8678. info
• HENS, N, Andrea KVITKOVIČOVÁ, M AERTS, D HLUBINKA and P BEUTELS. Modelling distortions in seroprevalence data using change-point fractional polynomials. Statistical Modelling. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010, vol. 10, No 2, p. 159-175. ISSN 1471-082X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471082X0801000203. info
• DIVINA, P, Andrea KVITKOVIČOVÁ, E BURATTI and I VORECHOVSKY. Ab initio prediction of mutation-induced cryptic splice-site activation and exon skipping. European Journal of Human Genetics. London: Nature Publishing Group, 2009, vol. 17, No 6, p. 759-765. ISSN 1018-4813. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2008.257. info

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