• Andreas Groll (Chair, TU Dortmund, Germany)
• Elisabeth Bergherr (Co-Chair; The University of Göttingen, Germany)
• Andreas Mayr (Co-Chair; The University of Bonn, Germany)
• Helga Wagner (University of Linz, Austria)
• María Xosé Rodríguez Álvarez (University of Vigo, Spain)
• Thomas Kneib (University of Göttingen, Germany)
• Jan Gertheiss (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany)
• Gunther Schauberger (TU München, Germany)
• Nikolaus Umlauf (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
• Nicola Torelli (University of Trieste, Italy)
• Ruggero Bellio (University of Udine, Italy)
• Dae-Jin Lee (IE University, School of Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain)
• Fulvia Pennoni (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy )
• Fernanda De Bastiani (University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
• Lola Ugarte (University of Navarra, Spain)
• María L. Durbán Reguera (University of Madrid, Spain)

TU Dortmund University with its 17 departments in the natural and engineering sciences as well as the humanities and social sciences is a dynamic university with a strong profile in research, teaching, promotion of young scientists and transfer.

The Department of Statistics at TU Dortmund University is the only statistics department in the German-speaking countries, with particular strengths in interdisciplinary research. It offers a diverse environment by leading and participating in several large collaborative research projects in statistics, computer science, engineering, and social and life sciences. Its scientific network includes, among others, the Fraunhofer Institutes IML and ISST, the Leibniz institutes IfADo and ISAS as well as
the newly founded Research Center “Trustworthy Data Science and Security” as part of the Research Alliance Ruhr. The Research Center builds a scientific bridge between statistics, computer science and social sciences in order to increase trust in digital technologies and methods.