Martí Casals
Assistant Professor of Statistics
University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC)
Biography
I am an associate professor in biostatistics in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and I am a researcher of the Physical Activity and Sport Studies Centre (CEEAF) at the University of Vic Central University of Catalonia (UVic). I’m collaborating as an sports statistician at FC Barcelona and I collaborated as an external biostatistician and Basketball Analyst at Memphis Grizzlies. I’m a Phd in Statistics and my primary fields of expertise are:
- Sports Biostatistics: awareness and education of this role, reporting of statistical methods and epidemiological studies, and injury prevention.
- Sports Analytics: awareness and education of this role, team sports (preferably basketball analytics) and tennis.
- Teaching Statistical Science: Basic statistics, epidemiology and sports performance applied to degrees of Medicine, Physical activity and sports sciences, Physiotherapy and Nursing.
Interests
- Statistical Science (Art of Statistics and Statistical modeling)
- Sports Statistics (Sports Biostatistics, Sports Epidemiology and Sports Analytics)
- Teaching basic Statistics (Communication, Innovation and gamification)
- R software
Education
PhD in Statistics, 2016 (summa cum laude)
Barcelona University (UB)
MSc in Statistics and Operations Research, 2008-09 (Top mark)
UPC's Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics
BSc in Financial and Actuarial Sciences, 2004
Barcelona University (UB)
BSc in Statistics, 2001
Barcelona University (UB)