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)