Erik Haufs

Doctoral researcher in mathematical statistics

Erik Haufs

Mathematical statistics. Climate extremes. Rare events.

I am a doctoral researcher at the Chair of Mathematical Statistics at Ruhr University Bochum. With my supervisor Prof. Dr. Axel Bücher, I work on statistical methods for extremes within ClimXtreme.

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Erik Haufs
Bochum, Germany he/him

Research interests

Statistics of extremes

Statistical methods for rare events, extreme order statistics, and time series.

Weather & climate

Extreme weather events, climate change, and probabilistic event attribution within ClimXtreme.

Computational neuroscience

Earlier work applying statistical learning and regression methods to neuroscience data.

Selected publications

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Recent news

  1. A two-month research visit with Prof. Dr. Johan Segers at KU Leuven, Belgium.
  2. Our paper on blockwise top-two order statistics has been accepted for publication in Bernoulli.
  3. In July and August, I spent two months visiting the University of Toronto and Université du Québec à Montréal.
  4. I gave a contributed talk at the Extreme Value Analysis conference in Chapel Hill, USA.
Earlier news
  1. I presented our Data Challenge results, jointly with Alexis Boulin, in an invited talk at EVA 2025.
  2. I received an International Realization Grant from the RUB Research School.
  4. I was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
  5. I presented a poster at the Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Bochum.