Bettina Grün

Associate Professor Bettina Gruen holds a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology and qualified in Statistics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. After completing her PhD she worked as a Hertha Firnberg scholar at the Vienna University of Business and Economics. In 2011 she joined the Johannes Kepler University Linz where she currently works as Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Statistics. Bettina's core research interests include finite mixture models and their application in model-based clustering including estimation as well as implementation in statistical software; and quantitative methods in economics, marketing and tourism. To date, Bettina has (co)-authored more than 50 refereed journal articles and 7 R packages freely available from the Comprehensive Archive Network (CRAN).