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Max Petzold

Professor

School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Telephone
+46 707-71 22 35
Mail
max.petzold@gu.se
Visiting address
Guldhedsgatan 5 A, plan 3
413 20 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 469
40530 Göteborg

Deputy Vice-Chancellor

The Vice Chancellors Office
Telephone
+46 707-71 22 35
Mail
max.petzold@gu.se
Visiting address
Universitetsplatsen 1, Vasaparken
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 100
40530 Göteborg

About Max Petzold

Max Petzold is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for digitalisation and knowledge transfer since 1 July 2023. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor for digitalisation and knowledge transfer has the overall responsibility for digitalisation, open science, ethics, information security, sustainability and internationalisation related to research. The assignment includes overall responsibility for development in relation to societal challenges locally, nationally and internationally, as well as chairmanship of the Library Board and the Committee for Ethics in Research, and vice chairmanship of the Research Board.Max Petzold is Professor of biostatistics. He has previously been, among other things, Director of the Swedish National Data Service, SND and Head of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine within the Institute of Medicine.

Max Petzold received his undergraduate education in Statistics and Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg and got his PhD in Biostatistics from the same university in 2003. Between 2003 and 2011, he was Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics at the Nordic School of Public Health. In 2012, he was appointed Professor in Health Science Statistics at the University of Gothenburg. As a statistician, he has a wide research range, but with a bias towards global public health and Nordic registry-based studies, see further https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Max-Petzold.

Max Petzold is involved in projects to strengthen undergraduate and postgraduate education in public health sciences in Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, and Ukraine, and he has vast experience as a supervisor.