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David Preinerstorfer becomes new professor of statistics

24/10/2024

WU is pleased to welcome David Preinerstorfer as a new member of the Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics since October 2024.

David Preinerstorfer, aged 38, began his academic education with degrees in statistics and psychology at the University of Vienna, where he also obtained his doctoral degree in statistics and operations research in 2015. In 2016, he joined the Department of Economics at Aarhus University in Denmark. A year later, he took up a permanent assistant professorship at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium before moving on to the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of St. Gallen as an associate professor of econometrics in 2021. In Switzerland, he also served as director of the Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research.

[Translate to English:] David Preinerstorfer

Algorithms for fair political decisions

David Preinerstorfer works on timely research questions at the interface between econometrics and statistics. For example, he looks at how treatments and policy measures can be selected efficiently and which methods and models can be used to obtain optimal results from big data. “In one project, I’ve investigated how algorithms can be adapted so that they lead to efficient political decisions while at the same time reducing discrimination,” says the new WU professor. As a statistician, David Preinerstorfer is a respected expert in his field, and he has won multiple awards, including the Prix Adolphe Wetrems from the Académie Royale de Belgique and the Multa Scripsit award presented by the journal Econometric Theory.

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