Ulrike Grömping is a statistician and a professor for applied statistics and business mathematics at BHT. She earned her PhD at the Department of Statistics at the University of Dortmund (now Faculty of Statistics at TU Dortmund University). Besides academic activities, she has work experience as a statistician in epidemiological studies as well as in automotive development. Her research interests are industrial design of experiments and variable importance in regression models, and she has authored, and maintains, several R packages around these topics.