Dr Julia Brettschneider (Reader)
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Research
As a statistical data scientist with initial training in probability and ergodic theory, I see every data analysis as an opportunity to derive general methods for a class of similar situations. My passion is in interdisciplinary project-oriented work, operating closely with experts from domains including genomics, microscopy, neuroscience, medicine, epidemiology, wearable devices, manufacturing, complex projects monitoring, ecology, and crop management.
I develop methods to assess and optimise data quality, to maximise information and knowledge gained from experiments, and model joint and individual decision processes from axiomatic/rational as well as subjective/descriptive perspectives. I have a particular interest in explicit modeling of uncertainty in high-throughput scientific measurement processes.
Supervision
6 of my PhD students have graduated and I am currently (co-)supervising 4. I have supervised about 50 Master level projects (MMORSE, MMathStat, Masters in Statistics, Masters in Epidemiology) at Warwick and Queen's University and am currently supervising 3 such projects. I have further supervised 6 third year Data Science projects.
Topics are about methods for statistical analysis of data from a wide range of domains including genomics (e.g. data quality), image data (e.g. X-ray, microscopy, brain images), medical statistics (e.g. cancer screening, predictors for survival, statistical questions of trial design), music streaming (e.g. Spotify playlists), concepts of probability (e.g. perception of randomness) and decision making (e.g. medical treatment, financial investment, admissions, crop management).
Students with an interest in a suitable topic of their choice, whether included in the list or not, are encouraged to contact me for this to be considered.
Short biography
- Reader (since 2021), Associate Professor (2010-2021), Assistant Professor (2007-2010), Dept of Statistics, University of Warwick, UK
- Assistant Professor, Dept of Math/Stats & Dept of Community Health/Epidemiology & Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Canada
- Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Statistician, Dept of Statistics at University of California at Berkeley, USA
- Postdoctoral fellow in Computational Biology at Eurandom, Netherlands
- PhD (2001) in Mathematics, thesis supervisor Prof. H. Föllmer, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
- Masters in Mathematics (with Computer Sciences and Psychology), thesis supervisor Prof. H. Föllmer, University Bonn, Germany
Impact and wider dissemination
Press release Shift workers 'can't all adjust to night shift': new research relating to our July 2022 eBioMedicine publication: Digital circadian and sleep health in individual hospital shift workers: a cross sectional telemonitoring studyLink opens in a new window
Brettschneider J
Quality assessment for high-throughput genomic data in research and clinical practice
Impact Case Study for REF2014
Unit of assessment: Mathematical Sciences, Summary impact type: Technological, REF2014Link opens in a new window
Available at REF website
Software
DetectorCheckerWebApp is an interactive WebApp for analysing pixel damage in CT scanners using the associated R-package DetectorChecker. Both have been developed jointly with The Alan Turing Institute and Prof Wilfrid Kendall. The project emerged as a spin off from our EPSRC inside-out blog. Initial versions of the software were issued on 29.3.2019 and new versions were released on 30.6.2020.
Recent publications and manuscripts
HF Williamson, J Brettschneider, M Caccamo et al
Data management challenges for artificial intelligence in plant and agricultural research
F1000Research 2023, 10:324Link opens in a new window
Y Ma, J Brettschneider, JF Collingwood
A systematic review and meta-analysis of cerebrospinal fluid amyloid and tau levels identifies Mild Cognitive Impairment patients progressing to Alzheimer’s Disease
Biomedicines, Special Issue, July 2022 (early access)Link opens in a new window
Y Zhang, E Cordina-Duverger, S Komarzynski, A Attari, Q Huang, A Aristizabal, B Faraut, D Léger, R Adam, P Guénel, J Brettschneider, B Finkenstädt, and F Lévi
Digital circadian and sleep health in individual hospital shift workers: a cross sectional telemonitoring study
eBioMedicine, Vol 81, July 2022Link opens in a new window
J Brettschneider, G Burro, V Henderson
Wide Framing Disposition Effect: an empirical study
Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Volume 185, May 2021, Pages 330-347, available at SSRNLink opens in a new window
J Brettschneider, G Burro, V Henderson
Not in my mind: the disposition effect is in the eyes of the beholder
Submitted, available at SSRNLink opens in a new window
JA Brettschneider, OT Giles, WS Kendall, T Lazauskas
DetectorChecker: analyzing patterns of defects in detector screens
Journal of Open Source Software, 2020, 5(56), 2474Link opens in a new window
F Lévi, S Komarzynski, Q Huang, T Young, Y Ang, C Fuller, M Bolborea, J Brettschneider, B Finkenstädt, J Fursse, DP White, and PF Innominato
Actionable determinants of circadian and sleep disruption identified from tele-monitoring of cancer patients during daily life
Cancers, 2020, 12(7), 1938Link opens in a new window
M Christodoulou, J Brettschneider, D Steinsaltz
Erosion of representativeness in a cohort study
Under revision, available at MedArXivLink opens in a new window
J Brettschneider, G Burro, V Henderson
Make hay while the sun shines: an empirical study of maximum price, regret and trading decisions
Submitted, available at SSRNLink opens in a new window
S Rajan, J Brettschneider, JF Collingwood
Segmentation of the corpus callosum in diffusion tensor images - methodology comparison in a study of healthy ageing and mild cognitive impairment
Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2020):108870
M Palma, S Tavakoli, J Brettschneider, T Nichols
Quantifying uncertainty in brainpredicted age using scalar-on-image quantile regression
NeuroImage (2020): 116938Link opens in a new window
JA Brettschneider
Perspectives on decision trees
Manuscript, presented at SPUDM Amsterdam 2019
M McFarlane, JA Brettschneider, A Gelsthorpe, S James, D Snead, K Gopalakrishnan, H Mehenna, J Jankowski, R Arasaradnam, C Nwokolo
An assessment of candidate genes to assist prognosis in gastric cancer
J Gastrointest Oncol. 2018 Apr; 9(2): 303–310
FM Nixon, TR Honnor, NI Clarke, GP Starling, AJ Beckett, AM Johansen, JA Brettschneider, IA Prior, SJ Royle
Microtubule organization within mitotic spindles revealed by serial block face scanning EM and image analysis
Journal of Cell Science, April 2017, 15;130(10):1845-1855. doi: 10.1242/jcs.203877Link opens in a new window
JA Brettschneider, M Burgess
Using a frailty model to measure the effect of covariates on the disposition effect
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-05, 2017
S Cheung, JL Hutton, JA Brettschneider
Review of sojourn time calculation models used in breast cancer screening
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-04, 2017
TR Honnor, AM Johansen, JA Brettschneider
A nonparametric test for dependency between between estimated local bulk movement patterns
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-03, 2017
JA Brettschneider, JW Warnett, TE Nichols, WS Kendall
Higher level spatial analysis of dead pixels on detectors based on local grid geometry
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-02, 2017
TR Honnor, JA Brettschneider, AM Johansen
Differences in spatial point patterns with applications to subcellular biological structures
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-01, 2017
Kueh A, Warnett JM, Gibbons GJ, Brettschneider J, Nichols TE, Williams MA, & Kendall WS
Modelling the Penumbra in Computed Tomography
Journal of X-ray science and technology, 24 (4), 2016, 583-97 (Gold Access)
J Brettschneider
Practical uses of quality assessment for high-dimensional gene expression data
in Aston et al (Eds): UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics, Chapter 29, Springer, 2016.
Preliminary version
Brettschneider J, Thornby J, Nichols TE and Kendall WS
Spatial analysis of dead pixels
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 14-24, 2014
Brettschneider J
Decision making in adjuvant cancer treatment choices based on complex information, including genomic recurrence risk scores, Abstract, Decision Making Bristol 2014, September 2014
Brettschneider J
On uniform convergence in ergodic theorems for a class of skew product transformations
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 29 (3), March 2011, 873-891
Download here (Journal website) or from arXiv
Foster CJ, Farmer P, Baetz T, Brettschneider J, Feilotter HE and LeBrun DP
Differential expression of cell cycle regulatory proteins defines distinct classes of follicular lymphoma
Human Pathology, Volume 42, Issue 7, July 2011, 972-982Link opens in a new window
Guan SH, Bonnett L, and Brettschneider J
Using gene subsets in the assessment of microarray data quality for time course experiments
CRISM research paper 09-24, May 2009
Hickey JG, Myers SM, Tian X, Zhu SJ, Shaw JLV, Andrew SD, Richardson DS, Brettschneider J and Mulligan LM
RET-dependent gene expression patterns distinguish RET isoforms but not oncogenic mutants
Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, 48(5), 429-440, May 2009Link opens in a new window
Brettschneider J, Collin F, Bolstad BM, and Speed TP
Quality assessment for short oligonucleotide arrays (with 5 commentaries and rejoinder)
Technometrics, 50(3): 241-264 (article), 279-283 (rejoinder), Aug 2008Link opens in a new window
Magalhaes T, Feilotter H and Brettschneider J
Comparison of five prominent expression measures and quality assessment and control for affymetrix microarrays
Work in progress
Brettschneider J
Shannon-McMillan type theorems for random fields along curves and lower bounds for surface-order large deviations
Probability Theory and Related Fields, 142 (3), 443-473, Nov 2007Link opens in a new window
Guan SH, Zheng J, and Brettschneider J
Microarray data quality assessment for developmental time series
In: Barber S, Baxter PD, and Mardia KV (eds.)
Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, LASR Proceedings, Leeds University Press, July 2007 Link opens in a new window
Barrier A, Lemoine A, Boelle PY, Tse C, Brault D, Chiappini F, Brettschneider J, Lacaine F, Houry S, Huguier M, Van der Laan MJ, Speed TP, Debuire B, Flahault A and Dudoit S
Colon cancer prognosis prediction by gene expression profiling
Oncogene, 24(40): 6155-6164, Sep 2005Link opens in a new window
Bolstad BM, Collin F, Brettschneider J, Cope L, Simpson K, Irizarry RA, and Speed TP
Quality assessment of affymetrix genechip data
In Gentleman R, Carey V, Huber W, Irizarry R, and Dudoit S (eds.)
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor, Springer, New York, 2005 Link opens in a new window
Marciano PG, Brettschneider J, Manduchi E, Davis JE, Eastman S, Raghupathi R, Saatman KE, Speed TP, Stoeckert CJ, Jr., Eberwine JH and McIntosh TK
Neuron-specific mRNA complexity responses during hippocampal apoptosis after traumatic brain injury
Journal of Neuroscience, Mar 2004, 24(12): 2866-76Link opens in a new window
Teaching
Introduction to Statistical Modelling (ST117)
Module for first-year MORSE, Mathstat, and Data Science students, Warwick University, Module development and lead in Spring term 2023 (Term 2)
ST912 Statistical Frontiers, PhD students, 2022, 2019, 2022, 2023 (Term 2)
Games, Decision and Behaviour (ST222)
Module for second-year MORSE, MathStat and Maths students, Warwick University, Module development and lead in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 (Term 1)
Advanced Topics in Biostatistics (ST414)
Statistical methods for large data sets
Module for 4th year and MSc students, Warwick University, 2015 (Term 2)
Statistical Laboratory (ST104)
Module for first-year MORSE and MathStat students, Warwick University, Module co-development and lead 2014 (Term 3)
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (ST952)
Module for MSc students, Warwick University, 2013 (Term 1)
Probability A/B (ST111/ST112)
Module for first Math year students, Warwick University, 2011, 2012 (Tem 2)
Advanced Topics in Biostatistics (ST416)
Statistical methods for large biological data sets
Module for 4th year and MSc students, Warwick University, 2011, 2012 (Term 2)
Probability A (ST111)
Module for first-year Math and MORSE and MathStat students, Warwick University, 2010 (Term 1)
Games and Decisions (ST114)
Module for first-year students, Warwick University, 2008 (Term 1)
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (ST952) (with Dr Heather Turner)
Module for MSc students, Warwick University, Module co-development and lead Fall term 2007
Some recent presentations
LunchtimeLink opens in a new window
Briefing session 1.11.2022 IM projectsLink opens in a new window
Talk 7.7.2022Link opens in a new window
Talk 13.6.2022Link opens in a new window
Talk 14.2.2022Link opens in a new window
Talk 1.12.2021Link opens in a new window
Talk 3.3.2020 CDT (ST912) Decision theory inspired by applications
Talk at Probabilistic Coupling and Geometry December 2019Link opens in a new window
Talk about Sampling Biases (Newton Institute workshop (UQ) March 8, 2018)
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Room 1.19, Statistics Department in the Mathematical Sciences Building (MSB), University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL