Ansgar Seyfferth

Ansgar Seyfferth is in charge of the business in Spain of STAT-UP Statistical Consulting & Data Science, which he set up in Madrid with the support of the company’s head office in Munich (Germany). They offer statistical consulting and data science services to solve all kind of business and scientific problems, as well as training, in companies of different sectors, government and research. He also teaches statistics as an invited professor at Universidad de Alcalá and data visualization as an adjunct professor at IE Business School.

Holding a MSc and BSc in Physics and a Diploma in Economics and Business Administration from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) as well as a Master in Mathematical Engineering from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Ansgar has been based in Madrid since 1995 working in dynamic and international environments, in areas such as IT-, technical, mathematical and statistical consulting, including instruction in these areas, as well as in design and sales of complex IT-systems and solutions.

He is (co)author of several scientific publications and writes about issues related to data and statistics in different contexts for example in El País, The Huffington Post, infolibre, or the Agenda of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Ansgar also collaborates with the leading Spanish think tank Fundación Alternativas and supported the executive board of the Hispanic-German Society of Young Managers. Besides his mother tongue German, he is bilingual in Spanish, speaks an excellent English, and has a reasonable command of both Portuguese and French.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Director for Spain, STAT-UP Statistical Consulting & Data Science Services, Spain, 2010 – Present

• Sales Manager Unix Systems, Bull (now Atos), Spain, 2007 – 2009

• Technology Sales Consultant / Account Manager, Morse (now Logicalis), Spain, 2003 – 2007

• Functional Analyst, Sema (now Atos), Spain, 1999 – 2003

• Project Engineer, Principia Consulting Engineers, Spain, 1995 – 1999

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Data Visualization, IE Business School, Spain, 2020 – Present

• Invited Professor of Statistics, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, 2019 – Present

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Master in Mathematical Engineering, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2003

• Equiv. MSC & BSC (“Diplom”) in Physics, Georg August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 1995

• Diploma (“Vordiplom”) in Economics & Business Administration, Georg August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 1996