# PhD DefenseMaura successfully defended her PhD

**Source**: https://bit.cs.tum.de/en/news/article/default-a221d36c0395ea72f3ce94bba7f78640
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2025-09-18
BIT

# PhD Defense Maura successfully defended her PhD

All good things come in threes! The next major milestone has been reached. I am very proud of my doctoral student Maura who successfully defended her dissertation. In her thesis, she addressed "Advances in Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Genotype-Phenotype Analysis" and developed permGWAS, a novel approach that enhances the robustness of genome-wide association studies for real-world data with imperfect statistical distributions. Her methods are an important building block in medical and plant research.  Congratulations, Maura on this impressive achievement!

All good things come in threes! The next major milestone has been reached. I am very proud of my doctoral student Maura who successfully defended her dissertation. In her thesis, she addressed "Advances in Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Genotype-Phenotype Analysis" and developed permGWAS, a novel approach that enhances the robustness of genome-wide association studies for real-world data with imperfect statistical distributions. Her methods are an important building block in medical and plant research.  Congratulations, Maura on this impressive achievement!