Publications:

• M. Behr and A. Munk, Identifiability for blind source separation of multiple finite alphabet linear mixtures, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 63(9):5506-5517 (2017)
• M. Behr, C. Holmes, and A. Munk, Multiscale blind source separation, The Annals of Statistics, 46(2):711–744 (2018)
• M. Behr, Finite Alphabet Blind Separation, PhD thesis, University of Göttingen (2018)
• M. Behr, M. Azim Ansari, A. Munk, C. Holmes, Testing for dependence on tree structures, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , 117(18):9787–9792 (2020)

• M. Pelizzola^*, M. Behr^*, H. Li, A. Munk, and A. Futschik, Multiple Haplotype Reconstruction from Allele Frequency Datan, Nature Computational Science, 1:262–271 (2021)

• L. Vanegas, M. Behr, and A. Munk, Multiscale Quantile Segmentation, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 117(539):1384–1397 (2022)

• M. Behr and A. Munk, Minimax estimation in linear models with unknown design over finite alphabets, SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 4(2):490-513 (2022)

• M. Behr ^*, Y. Wang^*, X. Li, and B. Yu, Provable Boolean Interaction Recovery from Tree Ensemble obtained via Random Forests, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 119(22):e2118636119 (2022)

• M. Behr , R. Burghaus, C. Diedrich, and J. Lippert, Opportunities and Challenges for AI-Based Analysis of RWD in Pharmaceutical R&D: A Practical Perspective, Künstliche Intelligenz, (2023)

• M. Behr ^*, K. Kumbier^*, A. Cordova-Palomera, M. Aguirre, E. Ashley, A. J. Butte, R. Arnaout, B. Brown, J. Priest, B. Yu, Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions, PLoS ONE, 19(4): e0298906 (2024)

• M. Gorski, S. Wiegrebe, R. Burkhardt, M. Behr , H. Kuechenhoff, K. Stark, C. Boeger, I. Heid, Bias-corrected serum creatinine from UK Biobank electronic medical records generates an important data resource for kidney function trajectories, Scientific Reports, 15:3540 (2025)

• B. J. Wagner, A. Ettner-Sitter, N.A. Ihlo, M. Behr, S. Koelbl, S. M. Brunner, F. Weber, B. M. Rau, H. J. Schlitt, C. Brochhausen, R. Schoenmehl, A. Artinger, D. Schott, M. Pizon, K. Pachmann, T. Aung, S. Haerteis, C. Hackl Patient-derived xenografts from circulating cancer stem cells as a preclinical model for personalized pancreatic cancer research, Scientific Reports, 15:2896 (2025)

• Q. Wang, T. M. Tang, N. Youlton, C. S. Weldy, A. M. Kenney, O. Ronen, J. W. Hughes, E. T. Chin, S. C. Sutton, A. Agarwal, X. Li, M. Behr , K. Kumbier, C. S. Moravec, W. H. W. Tang, K. B. Margulies, T. P. Cappola, A. J. Butte, R. Arnaout, J. B. Brown, J. R. Priest, V. N. Parikh, B. Yu, E. A. Ashley, Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy, Nature Cardiovascular Research , 4: 740–760 (2025)

• S. Heckscher, N. Ihlo, J. Schueler, F. Kellermeier, J. Werner, B. Nuebel, V. Gross, M. May, B. Wullich, M. Kammerl, C. Gnewuch, R. Burkhardt, B. Buchholz, E. Pion, T. Aung, M. Banas, H. Schlitt, P. Oefner, K. Dettmer, W. Gronwald, M. Behr , S. Haerteis, K. Schmidt, Metabolomic profiling of renal cyst fluid in advanced ADPKD: insights from dialysis and transplantation cohorts, Metabolomics , 21: 90 (2025)

Preprints:

• C. Elliott, J. Duncan, T. Tang, M. Behr , K. Kumbier, B. Yu Designing a Data Science simulation with MERITS: A Primer, arXiv preprint, accepted for publication at the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

• M. Gorski, M. Grunin, J. Herold, B. Fröhlich, M. Behr, N. Wheeler, W. Bush, Y. Song, X. Zhu, S. Blanton, M. Pericak-Vance, I. Heid, J. Haines, International Age-related Macular Degeneration Genomics Consortium , Diverse ancestry GWAS for advanced age-related macular degeneration in TOPMed-imputed and Ophthalmologically-confirmed 16,108 cases and 18,038 controls, medRxiv preprint , accepted for publication at Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS)

• B. Fröhlich, A. Durst, M. Behr, Decorrelated feature importance from local sample weighting, arXiv preprint

Software:

• R-package slamR,http://www.stochastik.math.uni-goettingen.de/slamR
• R-package and Jupyter Notebook treeSeg,
  https://github.com/merlebehr/treeSeg
• R-package haploSep, (together with M. Pelizzola and H. Li)
  https://github.com/MartaPelizzola/haploSep
• R-package and Jupyter Notebook mqs, (together with L. Vanegas)
  https://github.com/ljvanegas/mqs
• GitHub repository epiTree, (together with K. Kumbier)
  https://github.com/merlebehr/epiTree

^* joint first author