Dimitris Rizopoulos
Professor at Erasmus MC
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDimitris Rizopoulos is a Professor of Biostatistics at Erasmus MC with 17+ years of academic experience bridging longitudinal data analysis and survival modeling. He wrote the first book on joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data and has developed methodological tools widely used to quantify marker–event associations and predictive ability in clinical settings. His work spans practical applications—including HIV, pulmonary hypertension, prostate cancer, and primary biliary cirrhosis—translating complex statistical theory into tools for patient-risk assessment. Former Associate Editor of Biometrics and Biostatistics and current co-Editor of Biostatistics, he combines rigorous research, teaching, and editorial leadership while maintaining active contributions to the statistical software ecosystem.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Statistics, MSc, Statistics at Athens University of Economics and BusinessPhD, Biostatistics, PhD, Biostatistics at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Greek, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
missing-data10
prediction-model10
survival10
survival-analysis10
linear-models10
mixed-models10
state-space10
gmm10
gaussian10
principal-component-analysis10
statistical-inference9
glmm9
sbml9
mcmc8
regression8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
drizopoulos/GLMMadaptive
May 2018 - Sep 2022
GLMMs with adaptive Gaussian quadrature
Contributions:2 releases, 319 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 3 months
principal-component-analysisadaptivelinear-modelsstatistical-inferencequadrature
cran/ltm
Sep 2008 - Feb 2022
Contributions:18 commits in 13 years 7 months
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