Peter Bühlmann

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Peter Lukas Bühlmann (born April 12, 1965, in Zürich) is a Swiss mathematician and statistician. He studied at ETH Zurich, earning a diploma in 1990 and a PhD in 1993 with a thesis on The Blockwise Bootstrap in Time Series and Empirical Processes supervised by Hans-Rudolf Künsch and Erwin Bolthausen. After a postdoc at UC Berkeley (1994–1995) and a Neyman Assistant Professorship there (1995–1997), he returned to ETH Zurich as an assistant professor in 1997 and became a full professor in 2004, later chairing the Mathematics Department from 2013 to 2017. His research covers statistics, machine learning, and computational biology. He is married with four children and enjoys Alpine mountaineering. Bühlmann is a Fellow of the IMS and ASA and an elected member of the ISI; he has received numerous honors, including the Wald Memorial Award (IMS, 2024), and he served as President of the IMS (2022–2023). Since 2022 he has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, is an honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain, and won the Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society in 2018. He gave the Neyman Lecture in 2018, was a Rothschild Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute, and has been an invited speaker at ICM 2018 and a plenary speaker at ECM 2021. He has been repeatedly named a Highly Cited Researcher (2014–2020, 2025) and was co-editor of the Annals of Statistics (2010–2012).