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Anna-Simone Josefine Frank

Position

Senior engineer

Affiliation

Research groups

Work

I am a Senior Engineer for the core facility in , Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS). My expertise spans biostatistics, pharmacoepidemiology, causal inference, and advanced statistical modelling, with a strong foundation in applied mathematics, and dynamical systems.

Professional Experience:

Senior Engineer (2025– )
Biostatistics and Data Analysis, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Bergen, Norway

Senior Advisor (2024–2025 )
Statistics Section, Directorate of Fisheries, Bergen, Norway
 

Adviser / Administrative Coordinator (2024)
NORBIS – National Research School in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Systems Biology, University of Bergen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2019–2024)
Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
Fields: Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Systems Biology

Education:

PhD in Biostatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology (2016–2019)
PharmaSafe, School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Norway
Thesis:

MSc in Mathematics in Bioscience (2016)
Technical University of Munich, Germany

BSc in Mathematics (2013)
Technical University of Munich, Germany

International Experience:

  • Visiting Scientist, Cornell University, USA (2, months, 2019)
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Cornell University, USA (6 months, 2018)
  • Erasmus Scholar, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France (6 months, 2014–2015)
Outreach

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Interview (in Norwegian):

Teaching

Teaching Experience*

Discrete Structures (MNF130)
Main course instructor — Spring 2024
Approximately 300 students
Department of Informatics, University of Bergen

Computational Systems Biology (BINF305)
Main course instructor — Autumn 2021 and 2022
5–7 students
Department of Informatics, University of Bergen

Parameter Estimation in Systems Biology (NORBIS PhD Summer School)
Assisted lecture design and teaching — 2021

M.Sc. Theses, Department of Mathematical Sciences
External examiner

  • University of Agder, Norway — Two theses, Summer 2022

Course Exams, Department of Mathematical Sciences
External examiner

  • NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), 2023–2024

 

*In 2023, I completed the the University of Bergen's

Projects

Ongoing projects:

Multiple States and Transition Paths in Marine Ecosystems

Role: PI

 

Past projects:

A mathematical model of macrophage differentiation in the tumor microenvironment

Role: Participant (PostDoc)

Role: Participant (Ph.D. student)