Marek Kimmel is a Professor of Statistics at Rice University as well as the Rice Director of the Interinstitutional Graduate Program in Biostatistics. Professor Kimmel's research focuses on probabilistic modeling and statistical analysis in biosciences. He is particularly interested in applications of his work in cell and molecular biology and in cancer research. From the mathematical point of view, his interests lie in Markov and branching processes and in estimation theory.
Research Areas
Population Dynamics, Branching Processes, Statistical Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Bioinformatics
Education
Ph.D. Technical Sciences, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland
M.S. Control Engineering, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland
Advisory Role
2019-present Associate Department Chair
2014 Elected Academic Senate Member, Rice University
Teaching Areas
Probability and Statistics
Applied Stochastic Processes
Advanced Bayesian Statistics
Societies & Organizations
Fellow, American Statistical Association (ASA)
Fellow, Mathematical Society of Paris
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
Honors & Awards
2023 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2018 Editorial Board, bulletin of Mathematical Biology
2018 Mathematical Biology Section Editor, Biology Direct
2015 Editorial board, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
2009-2015 Member, NIH Cancer Biomarkers Study Section
2011 Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick University, UK
1999-2009 Editorial Boards, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of National Cancer Institute
2002 State Professorship, Republic of Poland