Dimitris Rizopoulos is a Professor in Biostatistics at the Erasmus University Medical Center. He received an M.Sc. in statistics (2003) from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics (2008) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Dr. Rizopoulos wrote his dissertation and several methodological and applied articles on various aspects of models for survival and longitudinal data analysis. He is the author of a book on joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data. He has also written three freely available packages to fit such models in R under maximum likelihood (i.e., package JM) and the Bayesian approach (i.e., packages JMbayes2 and JMbayes). He currently serves as co-Editor for Biostatistics (https://academic.oup.com/biostatistics).

Professor in Biostatistics,
Erasmus MC