CV

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In one sentence

Matthias Templ is Professor of Statistics at the FHNW School of Business in Olten, head of its Center for Data Quality and Anonymization, lead of SwissAnon and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reproducible Statistics.

In a paragraph

Matthias Templ is Professor of Statistics at the FHNW School of Business in Olten, where he heads the Center for Data Quality and Anonymization. He leads SwissAnon, the Swiss Data Anonymization Center, and is co-founder of FAIR Press and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reproducible Statistics. His research covers statistical disclosure control, synthetic data, imputation of missing values, compositional data and robust statistics. He maintains the R packages sdcMicro, VIM, simPop and robCompositions and edits the Austrian Journal of Statistics. He has written five books, among them Statistical Disclosure Control for Microdata and Visualization and Imputation of Missing Values (Springer). He holds a PhD and a habilitation in statistics from TU Wien and worked at Statistics Austria and ZHAW before joining FHNW.

Portrait of Matthias Templ
Photo: FHNW

At length

Matthias Templ is Professor of Statistics at the FHNW School of Business in Olten, Switzerland, where he heads the Center for Data Quality and Anonymization at the Institute for Competitiveness and Communication. He leads SwissAnon, the Swiss Data Anonymization Center, together with Murat Sariyar of Bern University of Applied Sciences, and in 2026 he co-founded FAIR Press, a reproducibility-first academic publisher, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reproducible Statistics. His research asks how data about people can be shared, completed and checked. Statistical disclosure control and synthetic data are one strand, imputation of missing values a second, compositional data and robust statistics a third. He is principal investigator of the SNSF and Innosuisse Bridge Discovery project on privacy-preserving technologies for event and longitudinal data. He also leads the SBB Research Fund project on sharing the SBB synthetic population and advises Nestlé Switzerland on risk-based anonymisation. He maintains eight R packages on CRAN, among them sdcMicro, VIM, simPop and robCompositions, and co-maintains the CRAN task views on official statistics and compositional data. He has written five books and more than eighty peer-reviewed articles, edits the Austrian Journal of Statistics and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He studied technical mathematics at TU Wien, where he earned his PhD in 2009 and his habilitation in statistics in 2013. Before joining FHNW in 2022 he worked at Statistics Austria and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He has consulted for the World Bank, UNIDO, the OECD and Eurostat and teaches statistical modelling and compositional data analysis at ETH Zurich.

Born in Steyr, Austria; in Switzerland since 2016.

Full CV

The complete CV as PDF in the public GitHub repository cv-public (latest public version).

github.com/matthias-da/cv-public

Positions

  1. 2022 to dateProfessor of Statistics (official title Professor for Empirical Methods and Business Analytics), head of the Center for Data Quality and Anonymization
    FHNW School of Business, Institute for Competitiveness and Communication, Olten
  2. 2024 to dateLead, SwissAnon, Swiss Data Anonymization Center
    with Murat Sariyar (BFH)
  3. 2026 to dateCo-founder of FAIR Press, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reproducible Statistics
    with Jürgen Degenfellner (ZHAW)
  4. 2021 to dateLecturer
    Plant Science Center, ETH Zurich
  5. 2016 to datePrivatdozent (habilitation)
    Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien
  6. 2020 to 2022Fellow, Digital Initiative of the Canton of Zurich, anonymisation
    Zurich
  7. 2016 to 2022Lecturer and researcher
    Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design, ZHAW, Winterthur
  8. 2013 to 2016Associate Professor
    Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien
  9. 2011 to 2022Founder and owner
    data-analysis OG, Vienna
  10. 2011 to 2016Consultant
    UNIDO and World Bank
  11. 2004 to 2016Research scientist, Quality and Methods Unit
    Statistics Austria, Vienna
  12. 2004 to 2012University assistant, then post-doc
    Department of Statistics and Probability Theory, TU Wien
  13. 2002 to 2003Research scientist, R&D
    voestalpine, Linz

Education

  1. 2013Habilitation (venia docendi) in statistics, TU Wien
  2. 2009PhD in technical mathematics with distinction, TU Wien; thesis on statistical disclosure control and imputation in official statistics
  3. 2003Master in technical mathematics, mathematics in economics, with distinction, TU Wien
  4. 2020Qualification in university didactics, ZHAW

Awards

  1. 2024Elected member of the International Statistical Institute
  2. 2019World Class Professorship programme of the Indonesian government
  3. 2009Award of the Austrian Statistical Society for the best PhD thesis in applied and computational statistics

Editorial roles

  • Editor of the Austrian Journal of Statistics, with Thomas Kuenzer, since 2014
  • Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Reproducible Statistics, since 2026
  • Associate editor of the Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv (Springer)
  • Section editor of Algorithms (MDPI)
  • Maintainer of the CRAN task views OfficialStatistics and CompositionalData

Memberships

  • International Statistical Institute, elected member
  • Austrian Statistical Society, presidium board since 2014
  • Swiss Statistical Society, section official statistics
  • Jury of the Lambert Award of the Swiss Statistical Society

Reviewing and committees

Reviewer for more than sixty journals and publishers, for the Dutch Research Council, the Polish National Science Centre, the Luxembourg National Research Fund and Eurostat; scientific committees of uRos, CoDaWork, Statistische Woche and SurvConf; organiser of SurvConf 2017 and 2025.

Contact

Riggenbachstrasse 16, 4600 Olten, Switzerland
matthias.templ@fhnw.ch