Lukas M. Weber, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Biostatistics, Boston University

About

Lukas Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, at Boston University.

His research is in statistical genomics and biomedical data science on the development of statistical and computational methods, open-source software, and collaborative analyses for data from high-throughput genomic technologies, primarily applied to biological questions in neuroscience and cancer biology. Currently, his research is focused on data from spatial transcriptomics and single-cell platforms.

He has implemented methods and other analysis tools in a number of R software packages, and supports principles of open and reproducible science, including the development of open-source software, reproducibility of analyses, benchmarking against existing and baseline methods, providing accessible code and data resources, and publication of preprints. He has instructed several workshops on R programming and computational skills.

His training includes a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, a PhD in Biostatistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a MSc in Statistics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.