Dr. Ursula Berger is a Senior Biostatistician and Epidemiologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich’s Department of Medical Informatics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology (IBE). She has extensive research experience at institutions including the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and at the Epidemiology & International Public Health Unit of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universität Bielefeld, Germany. She has also worked as a consultant for the Institut für Gesundheits- und Sozialforschung, IGES, in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Berger has obtained her doctoral degree in Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, where she also holds a Venia Legendi for Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Her fields of research activities include the evaluation of health programs and health interventions, health inequality research and risk factor assessment employing models for complex data structures.

Dr. Berger is also a dedicated educator, teaching international students in the
MSc programs of Epidemiology and Public Health and PhD programs. In addition she is also involved in the coordination of statistics and epidemiology courses for medical students, for whom she has developed a comprehensive e-learning tool and coordinated the development of a national catalogue of learning objectives in biostatistics.