Prof. Meinshause is a Professor at the department of Statistics of ETH Zurich. In 2012 he was a Professor of Statistics at the University of Oxford and in 2007 a Post-doctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley. He obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich and his Msc. in Applied Computational Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He was awarded the Guy Medal from the Royal Statistical Society in 2011 and he will give the IMS Medailon Lecture in 2015. Currently he is associate editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B and the Journal of Machine Learning Research.