Director of Research (retired)

Affiliated to Institut Montpelliérin Alexander Grothedick, University of Montpellier

My Research field had been at INRAE, Fra in the field of Statistical Genetics both from a theoretical and practical points of views, especially in the following areas:

• Quantitative and Population Genetics, Genetic diversity

• Analysis of Structural & Functional Genomic Data

• Mixed Models (Linear, GLM, NonLinear) Hierarchical Models

• Variance component estimation, Heterogeneous Variances

• Categorical Data, Longitudinal Data

• EM, SAEM Algorithms

• Bayesian models and inference

I came to Sport Statistics and Analytics after retirement with a special interest in forecasting outcomes of football matches and assessment of forecasting quality.