Since January 2010 Tim Friede is Professor of Biostatistics at the University Medical Center Göttingen where he heads up the Department of Medical Statistics. He graduated in mathematics from the University of Karlsruhe and obtained a PhD from the University of Heidelberg. In 2001 he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University.

From 2004 on he worked for Novartis Pharma AG, Basel before joining Warwick Medical School as Associate Professor of Medical Statistics in October 2006. Tim Friede's methodological research interests are in clinical biostatistics including designs for clinical trials (in particular flexible adaptive designs) and generalized evidence synthesis (including systematic reviews and meta-analyses) as well as applications in rare diseases and cardiovascular medicine. He is a principal investigator in the DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research) and serves as trial statistician for a number of clinical studies.