Dr. Laurent Donzé

Biography

Laurent Donzé is a Professor of Applied Statistics and Modelling (ASAM) and leads the ASAM research group at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Management at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His teaching experience includes mathematics, econometrics, introductory statistics, survey statistics, and applied statistics. His main research areas are in survey statistics and specific methods in applied statistics such as wage discrimination, estimation of causal effects, 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 doctorate in econometrics in 1990 from the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg, Laurent Donzé worked on several projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the Economic Research Office of the Canton of Ticino (Istituto di Ricerche Economiche). Concurrently, he completed his training in mathematics at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Fribourg. From 1996 to 2002, he worked as a scientific collaborator at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, where he set up the Swiss Business Panel. In 2002, he was appointed professor of statistics at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Management at the University of Fribourg. He teaches and conducts research affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. Since 2002, he has regularly collaborated with KOF ETH Zurich as a research professor and, since 2016, he is a visiting lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel, where he teaches econometrics. He is also a mentor for the Swiss Foundation for Studies and presides over the Education and Research section of the Swiss Statistical Society (SSS).

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