Dr. Thomas Süße

Dr. Thomas Süße earned his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Math.) in Mathematics from Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena, Germany, in 2003. He subsequently worked at FSU Jena as a research fellow before pursuing his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, from 2005 to 2008.

He then moved to Australia, where he worked as a research fellow at the University of New South Wales, before joining the University of Wollongong in 2009 as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2011, he was appointed as a lecturer, and in 2015 promoted to senior lecturer, teaching a range of core and service courses in statistics and supervising undergraduate, postgradute and doctoral students.

In 2023, Dr. Süße returned to Germany for a research visit with the GIScience Group at FSU Jena. He subsequently worked as a research fellow in Halle, and since May 2025, he has been back with the GIScience Group in Jena.

His early research focused on biostatistics and multiple testing methods. His PhD thesis addressed statistical methods for multiple response data—a specific type of multivariate categorical data. At the University of Wollongong, he extended his work to include survey methodology, multilevel modelling, and spatial statistics. His initial work in spatial statistics centered on maximum likelihood estimation of autoregressive models with missing data. More recently, his focus has shifted to methodologies for determining exceedance sets—for instance, identifying regions where groundwater nitrate concentrations exceed the threshold of 50 mg/L.

Dr. Süße is currently working on the ReGeNi project, which focuses on the regionalisation of nitrate pollution in groundwater. This project is led by Prof. Brenning and is funded by the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt).