cv

Here, you can download my CV as a pdf file (last updated in July 2025)

Basics

Name Markus Sauerberg
Label Data Scientist at Cancer Registry Hamburg
Email sauerbergmarkus@gmail.com
Phone 040/42837-2211
Url https://msauerberg.github.io/
Summary Analytical-thinking data scientist with extensive experience in quantitative research and statistical methods.

Work

  • 2024 - present
    Data Scientist
    Hamburg Cancer Registry (HKR), City of Hamburg, Hamburg
    Working in our database and analyzing cancer registry data
    • R
    • Python
    • SQL
    • DuckDB
    • Machine Learning
  • 2022 - 2024
    Postdoc Researcher
    Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden, Germany
    Mortality analysis and method development
    • Statistics
    • Mathematics
  • 2017 - 2022
    PhD Researcher
    Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
    Working on health and longevity research
    • Academic Work

Education

  • 2017 - 2021

    Vienna, Austria

    PhD
    Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
    Assessing population health in Europe: methodological issues and empirical findings
  • 2016 - 2017

    Rome, Italy

    European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD))
    Statistical and mathematical models
  • 2014 - 2016

    Rostock, Germany

    MSc Demography
    Rostock University
    Quantitative data analysis

Awards

  • 2024
    Best paper award
    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie
    Different health systems - Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992–2019, published in Social Science & Medicine

Certificates

Machine Learning in Production
DeepLearningAI 2025

Skills

Coding and stats
R
Python
SQL
Github/Gitlab
VS Code

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Kite surfing, sailing, techno, running, gym, bars