Reinhard Furrer received the Diploma degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in statistics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Geophysical Statistics Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA. From 2005 to 2009, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics and an Affiliate Faculty Member with the Department of Computational Science, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. Dr. Furrer is a member of the American Statistical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Association of Mathematical Geology.