o.Univ.Prof. Dr. Benedikt M. PÖTSCHER - Professional Activities


Professional Service

1986 Co-editor (with M. Deistler) of the special issue "Modeling Problems in Econometrics" of Applied Mathematics and Computation 20, 1986
1988-1994 Associate Editor, Econometric Theory
1991 Member of Program Committee Econometrics for the European Econometric Society Meeting, Cambridge, U.K
1992 Member of Program Committee for the IFAC Workshop on Economic Time Series Analysis and Systems Identification, Vienna, Austria
1993-1996 Member of Local Organizing Committee for the 1996 Meeting of the Bernoulli Society, Vienna, Austria
1995- Co-editor, Econometric Theory
1996 Member of Program Committee for the Austrian Statistics Days, Vienna, Austria
1999-2013 Associate Editor, Journal of Econometrics
2000-2002 Guest Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Econometrics (jointly with I. R. Prucha)
2003-2005 Co-Editor, Econometric Reviews
2005-2006 Organizer of Invited Session "Time Series Analysis" at Probastat 2006
2005-2007 Guest-Editor (with H. Leeb) of a special issue of Econometric Theory
2005-2006 Member of Program Committee Econometrics and Empirical Economics for the European Econometric Society Meeting, Vienna, Austria
2007-2008 Co-Organizer of the Workshop "Current Trends and Challenges in Model Selection and Related Areas" (jointly with H. Leeb)
2008-2009 Co-organizer of Conference "Econometrics, Time Series Analysis and Systems Theory: A Conference in Honor of Manfred Deistler"
2009 Co-organizer of Minisymposium "Statistical Inverse Problems" at the Conference on Applied Inverse Problems (AIP 2009)
2011-2012 Co-organizer of Workshop "Statistical Inference in Complex/High-Dimensional Problems"
2011-2013 Member of Program Committee for 29th European Meeting of Statisticians, Budapest 2013
2012-2022 Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
2013 External Member of Promotion Committee at University of Cyprus
2013 External Member of Recruitment Committee for Full Professor Position in Econometrics at University of Graz
2013 Member of Bernoulli-EMS Committee to select speaker for Bernoulli Society - European Mathematical Society Cooperation Lecture at 29th European Meeting of Statisticians
2016-2017 Member of Program Committee for the Vienna-Copenhagen Conference on Financial Econometrics
2016-2017 External Member of Recruitment Committee for Full Professor Position in Statistics at TU Dortmund
2016-2017 Co-organizer of Workshop "Model Selection, Regularization, and Inference"
2020-2022 Co-organizer of "5th Vienna Workshop on High-dimensional Time Series in Macroeconomics and Finance - A tribute to Manfred Deistler"
2022-2023 Guest-Editor of a special issue of Econometrics in Honor of Manfred Deistler (jointly with M. Wagner & L.Sögner)
2023-2024 Co-organizer of "6th Vienna Workshop on High-dimensional Time Series in Macroeconomics and Finance"

Grants

1979 Research grant from the Austrian Ministry of Science for the project "Generalized Metric Spaces"
1979-1981 Co-investigator in Austrian Science Fund Project, Grant No. 3639
1981-1984 Co-investigator in Austrian Science Fund Project, Grant No. 4393
1983-1985 Co-investigator in Austrian Science Fund Project, Grant No. 4922
1984-1990 Co-investigator in Austrian Science Fund Project, Grant No. S32
1990 US-NSF Grant No. DMS-89-14344 (Travel grant for IMS-Meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-18, 1990)
2000-2001 Principal Investigator, Austrian Science Fund Project "Model Selection and Statistical Inference", Project Grant No. P13868-MAT
2010-2015 Faculty Member of Vienna Graduate School of Economics, supported by a grant of the Austrian Science Fund
2015-2016 Principal Investigator, Austrian Science Fund Project, Grant No. P27398-G11