Dr. Laurent Donzé

Biography

Laurent Donzé is a Professor of Applied Statistics and Modeling (ASAM) and leads the ASAM research group at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and Management at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His teaching experience includes mathematics and econometrics, introduction to statistics, survey statistics, econometrics, and applied statistics. His main research areas focus on survey statistics and specific methods in applied statistics, such as wage discrimination, causal effect estimation, imputation techniques, and fuzzy statistics. He has published in numerous journals and has served as an expert for several journals and editions. After obtaining a PhD in econometrics from the University of Fribourg in 1990, Laurent Donzé worked on several projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Economic Research Office of the Canton of Ticino. He also completed further training in mathematics at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Fribourg. From 1996 to 2002, he was a scientific collaborator at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, where he established the Swiss Companies Panel. In 2002, he was appointed professor of statistics at the University of Fribourg and has been teaching and researching there since, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. Since 2002, he has also collaborated regularly with KOF ETH Zurich as a research professor and since 2016, he has been a lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel, teaching econometrics. He is a mentor for the Swiss Study Foundation and chairs the Education and Research section of the Swiss Statistics Society.

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