
Prof. Dr. Melanie Schienle
- Leiterin des Lehrstuhls
- Sprechstunden:
upon appointment
- Raum: 306 in Geb. 09.21 (Blücherstr.17)
- Tel.: +49 721 608-47535
- melanie schienle ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
- sites.google.com/view/melanieschienle
profile
For my working papers, publications and research CV please visit my personal website https://sites.google.com/view/melanieschienle
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[compact CV] (last update 09/2025)
since 04/2015 | professor and chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, department of Economics and Managment, KIT |
since 02/2021 | professor, department of Mathematics, KIT |
10/2012 - 03/2015 | professor of Econometrics, Leibniz University Hannover |
11/2008 - 09/2012 | assistant professor Econometrics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
2008 | dr. rer. pol. "summa cum laude", Mannheim University, Graduate School in Economics (Advisors: Enno Mammen, Oliver Linton) |
2003 | diploma with distinction in Mathematics with minor in theoretical Physics, University of Karlsruhe |
associate editor, international journal of forecasting (since 2023)
associate editor, journal of time series analysis (since 2016)
scientist, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, HITS (since 2023)
senior fellow, Rimini Center of Economic Analysis (RCEA) (since 2023)
steering committee member, Rimini Center of Economic Analysis (RCEA) Time Series (since 2023)
elected board member, german economic association (VFS) (since 2023)
scientific spokesperson, center of Mathematics in Sciences, Economics and Engineering (MathSEE) at KIT (since 2023)
founding spokesperson, Institute of Statistics at KIT (since 2024)
vice-dean of research, department of Economics and Management KIT (since 2023)
steering committee member, graduate school on computational and data science (KCDS) (since 2024)
PI graduate school KCDS (since 2022)
PI graduate school HIDSS4Health (since 2020)
chairwoman, standing fields committee of econometrics in the german economic association/ Vorsitzende Ausschuss für Ökonometrie, Verein für Socialpolitik ( 2019-2023)
member of CRYS (university research council) at KIT (2017-2023)
current key initiatives:
- HKMetrics-Network: link
- Respinow Hub on short-term forecasts and nowcasts for respiratory diseases in Germany: http://www.respinowhub.de
older projects with published outcomes:
- Covid-19 Nowcast Hub on nowcasting hospitalizations in Germany:
webpage with interactive visualization /github rep - German and Polish Covid-19 Forecast Hub on short-term forecasts for cases and deaths: webpage with interactive visualization / publication in Nature Communications / pre-print second paper
more backround project info: github / visualization with evaluation details / pre-registered evaluation study ( merged into the European Covid-19 Forecast Hub: website / git )