Saskia Litière

Saskia Litière obtained her degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Ghent (BE) in 2001. In that same year she started her career as a statistician at the Center for Statistics (Censtat), Hasselt University (BE). From 2001 to 2010 she was involved in the reorganization of the MSc in Applied Statistics program, obtained her master’s degree in Biostatistics, worked as statistical consultant, taught several Bachelor and Master level courses in statistics, and successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic of misspecification in generalized linear mixed models. In September 2010 Saskia joined the EORTC statistics department. In 2020 she was appointed Head of the Statistics Department and, in Sept 2024, Scientific Director. As statistician, Sshe worked on projects related to breast cancer, sarcoma, endocrine tumors, and malignancies of the genito-urinary tract. In her current position, she oversees / is responsible for …scientific aspects of conducting EORTC clinical research,