Chair of Business and Social Statistics
Welcome to the Chair of Business and Social Statistics!
09/19/2025
Upcoming workshop on new trends in statistical network analysis
The DFG-funded workshop will be organized together with Prof. Fuchs-Kreiß and Prof. Kauermann and will take place on September 22-25.

09/18/2025
Maxime Faymonville finishes her Doctoral Studies
On September 18 2025, Maxime Faymonville passed her disputation.

09/09/2025
Kai-Robin Lange finishes his Doctoral Studies
On September 9 2025, Kai-Robin Lange passed his disputation.

06/06/2025
Teaching award for Prof. Dr. Carsten Jentsch
Prof. Jentsch won the teaching award 2025, awarded by the Statistics Student Council.

04/04/2025
Workshop for five years MSc Econometrics
To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Econometrics program, a workshop on econometrics will take place on April 4 and 5, 2025.

09/15/2024
New joint BMWK project on Social (in)justice in the energy transition
"From the digital debate to the living world - Sub-Project: Monitoring narratives about the energy transition"

09/03/2024
RC Trust Incubator funding for llm hallucination detection
Researchers at TU Dortmund University are developing new methods for the early detection of hallucinations in language models.

05/31/2024
New Transregio "Spatio-temporal Statistics for the Transition of Energy and Transport"
Researchers at the UA Ruhr are developing methods to model and forecast data on the energy and mobility transition.

01/01/2024
DFG research grant for network inference
Researchers at TU Dortmund University and Leipzig University are developing new models for network data and statistical methods for estimation,…

07/02/2023
Yuliya Shrub receives the award for the best graduating international student
We congratulate Yuliya Shrub on her Master's degree and on winning the award for the best international student. Ms. Shrub completed her master's…

07/02/2023
Fabian Blunck receives the Alumni Association Award for his outstanding thesis
We congratulate Fabian Blunck on his master's degree and on the award of the Alumni Association for his outstanding thesis. Fabian Blunck wrote his…

06/29/2023
Dr. Jonas Rieger receives funding from the TU Dortmund Young Academy
For his research project "The Era of ChatGPT: Evaluation and Regulation of Large Language Models" he receives a grant of 5.000€.

04/01/2023
Statistical Colloquium/TRR Research Seminar
In the Statistical Colloquium, invited speakers present their current research. All interested parties are welcome to attend!

12/20/2022
MERCUR project funding for the Narrative Economics Alliance Ruhr
Researchers of the TU, the RUB and the UDE develop methods to analyze economic narratives

10/24/2022
EU funds GADMO: German-Austrian Initiative against misinformation
Researchers of the TU Dortmund University join Journalists in their task to automate Fact Checks using Natural Language Processing.

01/13/2020
MERCUR project funding for dynamic networks
Researchers at TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen are developing new comparative data analysis methods for dynamic networks.

01/10/2020
MERCUR individual funding regarding digital data.
Thomas Bauer becomes a professor at the UA Ruhr for "Digital Data in Social and Economic Research".

01/01/2020
DFG research grant on model diagnostics for count time series
Researchers at TU Dortmund University and HSU Hamburg are developing methods for the identification, selection and validation of time series models in…

10/01/2019
UA Ruhr program M.Sc. Econometrics (starting WiSe 2019/20)
The four-semester English-language master's program "Econometrics" brings together economics, mathematics and statistics.

12/03/2018
Cooperative Research of RWI and UA Ruhr
Scientists from RWI, RUB, UDE and TU Dortmund University work together under the competence field "Empirical Economic Research".

11/05/2018
DoCMA: Cooperation across three departments for text data analysis
Researchers from the departments of Journalism, Computer Science and Statistics develop methods and application scenarios for modeling text data.

10/01/2018
Joint doctoral training at the UA Ruhr
The Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS Econ) offers a doctoral program in economics.


