Heinz Schmidli

Heinz Schmidli studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and received his PhD in Statistics in 1994. He started his work in industry as a statistician at CIBA-GEIGY, cooperating with scientists in research, pre-clinical and clinical development. In 2000 he joined the Modeling&Simulation department at Novartis, implementing model-based drug development in various therapeutic areas. Since 2007 he is a member of the Statistical Methodology department at Novartis, providing consulting to statisticians within the company, and enabling innovative statistical methodology. His main fields of interest are statistical modeling, Bayesian methods, and adaptive designs.