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Axel Munk (November 14, 1967 in Tübingen, Germany) is a German professor for mathematics working in mathematical statistics and data science.

Life
Axel Munk studied from 1987 until 1992 mathematics and philosophy at the University of Göttingen. He received his doctoral degree for his thesis "Chebyshev's inequality' by Manfred Denker.

The he spent several postdoc visits at Bielefeld University, the TU Dresden, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Cornell University. 1999 he obtained his habilitation degree at the department of mathematics, Ruhr University Bochum. He then was professor for statistics at the University of Siegen and professor for applied mathematics at the Paderborn University. Since 2002 he is professor for mathematical stochastics succeeding Ulrich Krengel, and since 2009 he is Felix-Bernstein professor for mathematical statistics at the faculty of mathematics and computer sciences, University of Göttingen. Since 2010 he is Max Plank fellow at Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences heading the research group "statistical inverse problems in biophysics".