Manchester, UK 5-7 March

Maria Lanzerath leads a global team of statisticians at W.L. Gore, working with scientists and engineers to ensure that statistics is embedded throughout the manufacturing process. She has been an industrial statistician with the company since 1997, providing expertise in designed experiments, statistical process control and data-driven decision making. Lanzerath led the development of a companywide DOE training class for hundreds of engineers and scientists in the US, Germany, Japan and China. Before joining Gore, Lanzerath studied statistics at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University in Munich and worked for three years as a data manager and SAS programmer for a Japanese pharmaceutical company.