Thore Egeland

Short CV (26.01.2011)

Professor of statistics

Head of Biostatistics group
Norwegian University of life sciences (UMB)
IKBM, P.O.Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas, Norway

Contact:

Phone: +47 64 96 59 00
Fax: +47 64 96 59 01
thore.egeland@umb.no, UMB web

thore.egeland@gmail.com (private)

Office: M217 in building 44 on this map

Teaching Norwegian University of life sciences

Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance STAT210

Statistical data analysis STAT300

Design of Experiments and Analysis of Variance II STAT310.

Teaching. External lectures and courses (2012-)

Kiel, Jan 2012

San Andres Island, Colombia, Jun 4, 2012 . Familias and Forensic Genetics.

Copenhagen, June 25-28, 2012.

Alcala, Spain, Oct 8-9, 2012.

Research

I am an applied statistician, mathematician. I have previously worked in many applied areas including geostatistics and medicine. Currently, the main area of application is genetics (forensic genetics, population genetics, linkage analysis, association analysis).

Publications list with links to selected papers.

Euroforgen: European Network of Excellence project in forensic genetics (01.01.2011-31.12.2013). Projectflyer.

Software

Familias: A program for probability calculations when inferring paternity and identification based on DNA data. The familias project and software has been a main interest in cooperation with Petter Mostad (original paper) and more recently also Daniel Kling.

Fest: An R package for identification of family relations using linked markers (Skare, Sheehan, Egeland, 2009)

Current Students

Post doc: Guro Dørum

PhD-students:
Daniel Kling

Navreet Kaur

Oskar Hansson (co supervisor)

Ekaterina Avershina (co supervisor)

Oskar Hansson (co supervisor)

Ane Elida Fonneløp (co supervisor)

Available master projects

Two available master projects are described here (addressing mutation rates and estimating the classical species problem). In addition, several projects on forensic genetics and DNA are possible.