Christian Hennig
German statistician & professor (born 1966)
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Christian Martin Hennig (born 1966)[2] is a German statistician. His work focuses on robust cluster analysis.
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Christian Hennig in 2023 | |
| Born | 1966 |
| Education | University of Hamburg |
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| Fields | Statistics, particularly robust cluster analysis |
| Institutions | University of Bologna (Full Professor) |
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| Doctoral advisor | Konrad Behnen |
| Website | https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/christian.hennig/en/ |
Education and career
Hennig completed his doctorate in 1997 at the University of Hamburg, Germany, under the supervision of Konrad Behnen.[3] From October 2001 until September 2003 he was University Lecturer (fixed term postdoctoral position) at the Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zürich.[4] Hennig was a lecturer at the Department of Statistical Science, University College London (UCL) from 2005 on, and became Senior Lecturer in 2010.[5] Since 2019 he is full Professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" at the University of Bologna.[6]
As of 2023 ,Hennig serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Statistica.[7]
Selected works
Hennig has published - partly with co-authors - about 130 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings[8] as well as - together with M. Meila, F. Murtagh, and R. Rocci - a Handbook of Cluster Analysis:
- Hennig, C., M. Meila, F. Murtagh, and R. Rocci (eds.) (2015). Handbook of Cluster Analysis. Chapman and Hall/CRC, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-429-18547-2. https://doi.org/10.1201/b19706
- Hennig, C. (2008). Dissolution point and isolation robustness: Robustness criteria for general cluster analysis methods. Journal of Multivariate Analysis 99, 1154–1176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2007.07.002
- Hausdorf, B. and C. Hennig (2010). Species delimitation using dominant and codominant multilocus markers. Systematic Biology 59, 491–503. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syq039
- Hennig, C. Mathematical Models and Reality: A Constructivist Perspective. Found Sci 15, 29–48 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-009-9167-x