Ivo Ponocny
PROFESSOR
Department of Applied Statistics and Economics
MODUL University Vienna
Australia
Biography
Ivo Ponocny is head of the Department for Applied Statistics and Economics at MODUL University Vienna. He started his career at the Institute for Psychology of the University of Vienna where he developed goodness-of-fit tests for the Rasch model, for which he was awarded the Gustav A. Lienert prize of the German Psychological Society. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Psychology and an MSc in Mathematics and has a habilitation in Psychological Methodology. After an employment at Statistics Austria where he was head of the unit “Social Statistics and Education” and later “Science, Technology, and Education” he joined MODUL University Vienna in September 2007 where he is in charge of the Department “Applied Statistics and Economics”.
Research Interest
social and environmental psychology, statistics in general, especially non-parametric procedures, and the methodology of international educational studies such as PISA and PIAAC.
