Åke Svensson

Åke Svensson, Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Stockholm University
Postal address: Mathematical Statistics, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail address: akesmath.su.se
Phone: + 46 8 16 45 69
Telex: + 46 8 612 67 17
Visiting address:
Room 318,
Building 6, Kräftriket found as:
Building 16 on the university campus map and
Building 6 on the special map of Kräftriket.
Current research interests:

I do active research work in the areas:

Theoretical statistics
Mathematical (probabilistic) models for epidemic spread
Statistical methods for analysing data on infectious diseases
My ambition is to combine development of theoretical techniques and models in close connection to applied problems.
For a long time I worked with statistical analysis of traffic and traffic safety. Now I mostly work with applications
from biostatistics in a broad sense, spanning from genetics to clinical trials and epidemiology.

I'm engaged part time at Smittskyddsinstitutet (The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control) as a member
of a statistics group within the department of epidemiology.

I participate in two EU projects dealing with the development of models to analyse spread of infections.
The two projects are MODELREL and INFTRANS. The aim of MODELREL is to establish a co-ordinated
EU capability in (real-time) modelling to help counter deliberate releases of biological agents, and potential
larger impact natural epidemics (e.g. pandemic flu). INFTRANS has similar objectives with a more long-term
and research oriented focus.

I have supervised Ph.D and master thesis in the areas of genetic epidemiology,
cancer epidemiology, models for epidemic spread, clinical trials and bioequivalence.

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