Jonas Peters, Professor of Statistics

Jonas has been an associate professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences for three years, affiliated with the research group Statistics and Probability Theory. He is the youngest faculty member at the Department - born in 1984 in Nordhorn, Germany.

Jonas graduated from the University of Cambridge and the University of Heidelberg, and was a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, and ETH Zurich where he received the ETH Medal for an outstanding PhD thesis in 2012.

Between 2012 and 2015, he was postdoc (Marie Curie Intra-European-Fellowship) at ETH Zurich, and visiting researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond (WA), UC Berkeley (CA) and Carnegie Mellon University (PA). He became afterwards group leader of the Causality Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen.

Last year Jonas published, together with two colleagues, the book "Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning Algorithms". Jonas has also received recognition for his teaching in causality - from the students - when he received the SCIENCE Teaching Prize 2018.

In 2017, Jonas received the Carlsberg Foundation's Distinguished Associate Professor Fellowship for the research project “Learning by doing: How to adapt to changing environments”.

In 2018 he received a grant from the VILLUM Young Investigator Program funding the project "Causal Learning in Real World Applications". Read the interview we brought on that occasion: He will tackle the impossible: learning causality from data