Prof. Dr. Frank Klawonn is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ostfalia University in Wolfenbüttel and Head of the Biostatistics Group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. He studied mathematics with a focus on statistics (degree: Diplom-Mathematiker) at the TU Braunschweig from 1983 to 1988. From 1988 to 1993, he was a Research assistant at the Institute for Operating Systems and Computer Networks at TU Braunschweig. Then, he served as a Post-Doc in a research contract with the Fraunhofer Society in Braunschweig (1993–1997). He worked as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Rhodes University in Grahamstown (South Africa) and the Department of Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria), subsequently, and a Professor for Fundamentals of Computer Science at the Emden/Leer University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1997–2002). Then, he moved to the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on Statistics, especially computational statistics and robust statistics, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, and Exploratory data analysis.