Studies/degrees:

• 1977-1983: Studies in Economics and Mathematics, Bergische Universität (BUGH) Wuppertal (1983 Diploma in Economics)
• 1983-1984: Doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
• 1986: Doctorate in applied statistics, BUGH (Dr.rer.oec.)
• 1991: Habilitation in statistics and business informatics, BUGH

Former positions:

• 1984-1986: Research assistant, BUGH, LS Economic Statistics.
• 1987-1989: University assistant (C1) BUGH, LS Economic Statistics
• 1989-1990: Researcher in the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Econometrics at the IBM Science Center Pisa, Italy
• 1990-1992: University assistant (C1) and from 1991 senior assistant (C2) BUGH, LS Economic Statistics, parallel supervision of an IBM study contract
• 1992-1994: Senior consultant, IBM Heidelberg Science Centre
• 1994: Chief designer for information systems, Scientific Centre IBM Heidelberg

Current position:

• Since 1994: University Professor (C4) of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics Ingolstadt, Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt.

University self-administration:

• 1994-1997: Faculty representative for study abroad programmes
• 1995-2002: Member of the Examination Committee, Vice- Chairman until 1999
• 1995-1997: Member of the University Assembly
• 1996/97 and 2002/2003: Coordination of several HBFG applications for the renewal of the IT infrastructure
• 2001-2008: Faculty representative for the evaluation of teaching
• 2009-2012 and 2017-2022: Chair of the Space Commission of the WWF

• 1994-2012 and 2014-present: member of several faculty councils, appointment committees, student applicant selection committees, Central Facilities Commission, Budget Committee, IT Advisory Board, etc.

• 01/2012 - 01/2014: Vice President for Studies and Teaching at the Catholic University of Eichstätt- Ingolstadt.

Other:

• 2004-2012: Member of the Editorial Board of Foresight - The International Journal of Applied Forecasting (since 2007 Software Editor).
• - Since 2004: Doctoral training within the Graduate Program in Operations Management (GPOM: TU Munich, University of Augsburg, KU)
• - 2006-2015: Head of the working group Forecasting Methods of the Society for Operations Research (GOR)
• - Since 1994: Supervision of 10 doctoral students as first supervisor and 22 doctoral students as second supervisor, 2 dissertations currently under supervision, 3 habilitation students as supervisor/mentor

Main areas of research

• Until 1989 mainly economic and social statistics, including statistical models for sociological and microeconometric applications.
• Since 1989 primarily concentration on statistical forecasting methods (e.g. early warning systems, forecast evaluation, sales forecasting) and data mining.
• 2008-present: Forecasting methods for sporadic demand patterns for warehousing and spare parts stocking as well as forecasting commodity prices (including agricultural commodities).
• Since 1977 until today: Data science, computational statistics, including software development (e.g. R), databases and operating systems.
• Since 2011 until today: Monitoring and forecasting of prices of high-tech products and agricultural commodities.

Books and anthologies (selection)

• Küsters, U. (1987): Hierarchische Mittelwert- und Kovarianzstrukturmodelle mit nichtmetrischen endogenen Variablen. Physica, 112+VIII Seiten (Dissertationsschrift)
• Küsters, U. und Arminger, G. (1989): Programmieren in GAUSS - Eine Einführung in das Programmieren statistischer und numerischer Algorithmen. G. Fischer, Stuttgart, 315+VIII Seiten
• Küsters, U. (1992): Entwicklung von regelbasierten Expertensystemen in APL2. Physica, Heidelberg, 238+VIII Seiten (Habilitationsschrift)

• Küsters, U. und Bell, M. (1999): The Forecasting Report: A Comparative Survey of Commercial Forecasting Systems. it-Research, Brookline, MA, USA, 644 Seiten
• Hippner, H., Küsters, U., Meyer, M. und Wilde, K. (2001, Hrsg.): Handbuch Data Mining im Marketing. Gabler-Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 1042 Seiten (verantwortlich für methodischen Teil S. 93-558)

Essays and anthology contributions (selection)

• Arminger, G. und Küsters, U. (1985): Simultaneous Equation Systems with Categorical Observed Variables. In: Gilchrist, R., Francis, B. und Whittaker, J. (Hrsg.): Generalized Linear Models. Lecture Notes in Statistics 32, Springer, Berlin - Heidelberg - New York - Tokyo 1985, S. 15-26
• Arminger, G. und Küsters, U. (1989): Construction Principles for Latent Trait Models. Sociological Methodology, S. 369-393
• Küsters, U. (1990): A note on sequential ML estimates and their asymptotic covariances. Statistical Papers, S. 131-145
• Küsters, U., Scharffenberger, U. und Steffen, J.P. (1996): Outlier Diagnostics in ARMAX Models. In: Faulbaum, F. und Bandilla, W. (Eds.): SoftStat’95: Advances in Statistical Software 5, Lucius & Lucius Verlag, Stuttgart, S. 569-579
• Küsters, U. und Vogt, O. (2004): Multivariate exponentielle Glättung: Ein Fallbeispiel mit zeitreihenübergreifenden Komponenten. In: Metz, R., Lösch, M. und Edel, K. (Hrsg.): Zeitreihenanalyse in der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart, S. 101-123
• Küsters, U. McCullough, B.D. und Bell, M. (2006): Forecasting software: Past, present and future. International Journal of Forecasting 22, S. 599-615
• Küsters, U. und Thyson, J. (2008): Forecast Pro Unlimited: An Off-the-Shelf-Solution for Large-Volume Forecasting. Foresight - The International Journal of Applied Forecasting 11, S. 43-49
• Küsters, U. (2012): Evaluation, Kombination und Auswahl betriebswirtschaftlicher Prognoseverfahren. In: Mertens, P. und Rässler, S. (Hrsg.): Prognoserechnung. 7. Auflage, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, S. 423-467
• Küsters, U., Thyson J. und Büchl, C. (2012): Monitoring von Prognosemodellen. In: Mertens, P. und Rässler, S. (Hrsg.): Prognoserechnung. 7. Auflage, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, S. 383-422
• Küsters, U. und Speckenbach, J. (2012): Prognose sporadischer Nachfragen. In: Mertens, P. und Rässler, S. (Hrsg): Prognoserechnung. 7. Auflage, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, S.75-108
• Küsters, U., Nieberle, E. und Speckenbach, J. (2015): Konkurrierende Prognoseverfahren für die Lagerhaltung. In Claus, Thorsten ; Hermann, Frank ; Manitz, Michael (Hrsg.): Produktionsplanung und –steuerung : Forschungsansätze, Methoden und deren Anwendungen. - Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer Gabler, S. 153- 178
• Kömm, H. und Küsters, U. (2015): Forecasting zero-inflated price changes with a Markov switching mixture model for autoregressive and heteroscedastic time series. International Journal of Forecasting 31, S. 598-608

Publications

University career

04/2017 – 02/2019                   Master of Science in Mathematics

• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Focus: Statistics
• Topic of the master thesis in statistics: "Causal analysis of the heels of electronic

      components with dynamic regression models"

10/2013 – 03/2017                   Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Minor subject: Philosophy
• Topic of the bachelor thesis in Algorithmic Game Theory: "Strong implementability of social

      choice functions in Dominant Strategies".

10/2009 – 10/2013                   Bachelor of Science in Economics

• Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn
• Major in Microeconomics
• Topic of the bachelor thesis in the field of economic history: "Fiscal Policy in the Great

      Depression: Germany 1929-1932"

Professional Experience

04/2020 - today                        Lecturer at Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences for Quantitative Methods 2

04/2018 - today                        Research assistant at the Chair of Statistics and Quantitative Methods in Economics

04/2018 - 10/2018                    Working student at Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG in the area of Strategic

     Partnership Management

10/2017 - 03/2018                    Lectureships Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

• Analysis I
• Analysis III (not in-depth)
• Elementary Mathematics

06/2017 - 07/2017                    Research assistant

• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Didactics of Mathematics

04/2016 - 07/2016                    Student Assistant

• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Chair of Analysis

Social engagement

                                                        Ingolstadt

• Faculty Council Member (2019 - present)

                                                        Eichstätt (a.o.)

• Faculty council member (2015 - 2018)
• Fachgruppensprecher

                                                        Bonn (a.o.)

• Chair of the VWL student council
• Finance Officer
• Member of the Audit Committee

Lecturer in WS 2021/2022 for

- Statistical Forecasting Methods - Exercise

- Computational Statistics with R 

Lecturer in SS 2022 for

- Time Series Analysis - Exercise

- Computational Statistics with R

Education

• 04/2020 – 10/2021        Master of Science in Business Analytics  and Operations Research

Catholic University Eichstätt – Ingolstadt

• 04/2019 – 06/2021         Interdisciplinary Master of Education in Mathematics – Economics – Psychology

Catholic University Eichstätt – Ingolstadt  

• 10/2016 – 05/2019         Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with the Orientation Business

Mathematics Catholic University Eichstätt – Ingolstadt  

• 10/2014 – 05/2019         Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Education in Mathematics – Economics –

Pedagogy Catholic University Eichstätt – Ingolstadt  

• 09/2006 – 06/2014       Abitur (A-Levels) Hallertau – Gymnasium Wolnzach

Work Experience

• since 10/2020                 Research Associate at the Chair of Statistics and Quantitative Methods in Economics

at the Catholic University Eichstätt – Ingolstadt 

• Lecturer in descriptive statistics  and probability theory
• Leturer in statistical inference and multivariate statistics         

Skills

Languages:                            German – native

English – good

                                           Latin – advanced Latin certificate

French – basic (DELF – Diploma Level B1)

Software:                               Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), R, LaTeX

Awards

03/2020                                 GOR Bachelor Price 2019 

Title: Identification and analysis of the primary pricing determinants in the German

mobile phone market using hedonic pricing models

05/2014                                  Golden badge of honor by the German Association of Classical Philologists for

outstanding achievements in Latin                                                                      

Ingolstadt, November 2021

Lecturer in WS 2021/2022 for

- Statistical Inference and multivariate statistics - exercise 1 and exercise2

Lecturer in SS 2022 for

- Descriptive statistics and probability - exercise 1 and exercise 2