Professor Frauke Kreuter
Professor of Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Statistics
Professional career and research topics
Frauke Kreuter completed her degree in sociology at the University of Mannheim in 1996 and earned her doctorate at the University of Konstanz in 2001.
Afterwards Frauke Kreuter spent more than 20 years in the USA, working at the University of California, the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan. She is currently the Professor of Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), Co-director of the Social Data Science Center (SoDa), and faculty member in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland. Until 2021 Kreuter headed the statistical methods group at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg.
She was appointed an IAB Research Fellow in 2024.
Frauke Kreuter’s research interests are: social data science, data quality, data protection and data infrastructure.
Her research results have been published in numerous major journals such as Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Social Science Computer Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Field Methods.