Michael is a Professor for Biostatistics working under the German Research Foundations Heisenberg Program at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Germany. He is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he has been working for more than a decade as part of IeDEA-SA. His research interests include the development and application of modern causal inference methods to challenging longitudinal observational databases, for example in the context missing data, survival data and for continuous exposures. He is interested in pediatric HIV research on both optimal treatment strategies and antiretroviral target concentrations.