Stefanie Peschel

Stefanie Peschel

PhD candidate in Biostatistics

LMU Munich

Hi, I’m Stefanie, a doctoral candidate in Biostatistics at LMU Munich, where I’m supervised by Professor Christian L. Müller.

I began my PhD studies at the Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention at Helmholtz Zentrum München, under the guidance of Professor Anne-Laure Boulesteix. My research now continues in the Biomedical Statistics and Data Science group of Professor Christian L. Müller at LMU, contributing to research at the intersection of statistics, bioinformatics, and microbiome science.

I studied Statistics with a focus on Economic and Social Sciences at LMU. My master’s thesis marked my first foray into microbial network analysis, which laid the foundation for my doctoral research. My research interests include analyzing microbial compositional data, network analysis and comparison, differential association testing, and permutation p-value approximation.

Besides my scientific activities, I also lead the Early Career Working Group (AG Nachwuchs) of the IBS-DR.

R skills

software-package
Package Development

95%

renv
Reproducible environments (renv)

95%

parallelization
Parallelization

90%

visualization
Visualization

90%

tidyverse
Tidyverse

80%

rmarkdown
R Markdown

90%

quarto
Quarto

70%

shiny
Shiny

30%

Programming skills

r-project
R

95%

git
Git/GitHub

90%

latex
LaTeX

70%

python
Python

30%

sas
sas

5%

cpp
C/C++

5%

Software skills

powerpoint
MS PowerPoint

95%

ms_office
MS Office

70%

libreoffice
LibreOffice

80%

notion
Notion

80%

inkscape
Inkscape

90%

gimp
GIMP

80%

shotcut
Shotcut

80%

Research topics

EDA
Exploratory data analysis
microbiome
Biomedical data (microbiome data)
network-analysis
Network analysis
permutation
Permutation testing

Languages

DE
German

99%

EN
English

70%

Interests

science_technology
Science & Technology
nature
Nature
camera
Photography
board_games
Board Games

Experience & Education

 
 
 
 
 
__Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München__
Department of Statistics
Doctoral candidate
April 2025 – Present Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München__
Department of Statistics
PhD student and teaching assistant
October 2022 – March 2025 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__IBS-DR__
(German Region of the International Biometric Society)
Head of the Early Career Working Group
March 2021 – Present Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Helmholtz Zentrum München__
Institute of Asthma and Allergy Prevention
PhD student and research assistant
October 2018 – October 2022 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München__
Department of Statistics
M.Sc. in Statistics
(with an Economic and Social Science Background)
April 2016 – May 2018 Munich
Grade 1.15 (approximately equivalent to an “A” grade or a British 1st class)
Thesis title: “Statistical Approaches to Characterize and Compare Networks of Microbiome Data”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix
 
 
 
 
 
BMW group
Internship
October 2016 – March 2017 Munich
Statistical consulting as part of the master´s degree program of the Department of Statistics at LMU Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München__
Department of Statistics
B.Sc. in Statistics
April 2013 – March 2016 Munich
Grade 1.24 (approximately equivalent to an “A” grade or a British 1st class)
Thesis title: “Change-Point-Schätzung bei Überlebensdauern von Intensivpatienten”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helmut Küchenhoff
 
 
 
 
 
__Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München__
Department of Statistics
Research assistant
August 2016 – October 2016 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München__
Department of Statistics
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Statistics
April 2013 – March 2016 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München__
Department of Statistics
Studies in Business Mathematics
October 2011 – March 2013 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Commerzbank AG__
Financial advisor
October 2011 – September 2018 Munich
As part-time job in parallel with my university studies
 
 
 
 
 
__Commerzbank AG__
Financial advisor
August 2009 – September 2011 Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Commerzbank AG__
Bank traineeship
September 2007 – July 2009 Munich

Awards

The price was awarded by the the German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-DR) for my master thesis “Statistical Approaches to Characterize and Compare Networks of Microbiome Data”

Projects

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Online Book “Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis”
Contribution to this online book with two chapters on microbial network analysis
Permutation p-value approximation
Accurate p-value approximation in permutation testing while strictly avoiding zero p-values
NetCoMi
Network Construction and Comparison for Microbiome Data
Noun Project
Platform for icons and symbols, where I upload my self-made icons.
Early Career Working Group
IBS-DR working group supporting statisticians in the early stages of their careers.

Publications

(2025). Statistical end-to-end analysis of large-scale microbial growth data with DGrowthR. bioRxiv.

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(2025). The Janus face of Bifidobacterium in the development of atopic eczema: A role for compositional maturation. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

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(2023). Over-optimism in unsupervised microbiome analysis: Insights from network learning and clustering. PLOS Computational Biology.

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(2021). NetCoMi: network construction and comparison for microbiome data in R. Briefings in Bioinformatics.

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Teaching experience

 
 
 
 
 
__Einführung in die Statistische Software (R)__
Introduction to statistical software (R)
Lecture (lead) for >350 students
October 2024 – March 2025 LMU Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Analysis of high-dimensional biological data__
Tutorial (lead) & teaching assistance
April 2024 – October 2024 LMU Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA)__
Seminar (lead)
April 2024 – September 2024 LMU Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Selected Topics in High-Dimensional Biomedical Data Analysis__
Seminar (with others)
October 2023 – April 2024 LMU Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Network Learning and Sparse Estimation__
Seminar (with others)
May 2023 – September 2023 LMU Munich
 
 
 
 
 
__Analysis of high-dimensional biological data__
Tutorial (lead) & teaching assistance
April 2023 – August 2023 LMU Munich

Contact

If you would like to contact me, please write me a message on LinkedIn or GitHub.