Lyron Winderbaum

Dr Lyron Winderbaum

Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences

School of Mathematical Sciences

College of Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Lyron is a passionate mathematics educator, as well as an applied statistician, data scientist, rockclimber, and LGBTQIA+ advocate and ally. Working at the Mathematics Learning Centre at the University of Adelaide from 2012-2019 he discovered his passion for enabling and supporting learners entering into university mathematics education. In early 2019 Lyron completed his Masters in Teaching on mathematics bridging programs and the barriers students face in the secondary-tertiary transition of mathematics education. Since then, he has worked as a high school teacher, and taught numerous university mathematics courses including several enabling programs as well as data science programs and software carpentry workshops. Throughout all his mathematics education experience his focus has always been on supporting students one-on-one in a relational style both because it is the aspect of teaching he finds the most deeply rewarding, and because aligns to his core values and teaching philosophy.

Although I have limited time for research currently, my research interests can be broadly placed into two buckets.

Education related topics: Equity and accessibility in teaching, learning, and supporting learners in mathematics education. Maths anxiety, bridging and enabling programs, and mathematics education's role is socio-economic mobility.

Data analysis related topics: reproducible research including quarto and related tools, high-dimensional multivariate linear algebra related statistical methods, decision-making processes and data analysis for practical impact. I've worked on data from a variety of sources including proteomics mass spectrometry (both liquid chromatography and imaging) in both oncology and plant biology, continuous glucose monitoring data for individualised medicine in managing diabetes, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for trace element analysis in geology, and some others and I would be interested in looking at topics including wealth inequality economics and diversity in education.

Date Position Institution name
2026 - ongoing Lecturer Adelaide University
2022 - 2025 Lecturer The University of South Australia
2021 - 2021 Data Analyst Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
2020 - 2021 Facilitator Taylors College
2019 - 2021 Research Fellow The University of Western Australia
2019 - 2019 Relief Teacher Department for Education
2019 - 2019 Statistician LBT Innovations
2017 - 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate The University of South Australia
2015 - 2016 Research Associate The University of Adelaide
2012 - 2019 Tutor The University of Adelaide

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Hebrew Can speak and understand spoken

Date Institution name Country Title
2018 - 2019 The University of Adelaide Australia Master of Teaching
2012 - 2016 The University of Adelaide Australia PhD
2011 - 2011 The University of Adelaide Australia Honours in Statistics
2007 - 2010 The University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) and Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (Pure Mathematics

Date Title Institution name Country
2021 Software Carpentries Instructor Software Carpentries -

Year Citation
2022 Winderbaum, L., & Koch, I. (2022). Cross-validation for supervised learning with tuning parameters. Journal of Statistics and Computer Science, 1(1), 55-76.
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2022 Koch, I., Winderbaum, L., & Naito, K. (2022). Principal component analysis of standard and spherical covariances from the population and random samples to real and simulated data. American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, 11(4), 122-139.
DOI
2018 Gustafsson, O. J. R., Briggs, M. T., Condina, M. R., Winderbaum, L. J., Pelzing, M., McColl, S. R., . . . Hoffmann, P. (2018). Raw N-glycan mass spectrometry imaging data on formalin-fixed mouse kidney. Data in Brief, 21, 185-188.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC3
2018 Gustafsson, O. J. R., Winderbaum, L. J., Condina, M. R., Boughton, B. A., Hamilton, B. R., Undheim, E. A. B., . . . Hoffmann, P. (2018). Balancing sufficiency and impact in reporting standards for mass spectrometry imaging experiments. GigaScience, 7(10), 1-13.
DOI Scopus17 WoS16 Europe PMC9
2017 Mittal, P., Klingler-Hoffmann, M., Arentz, G., Winderbaum, L., Kaur, G., Anderson, L., . . . Oehler, M. (2017). Annexin A2 and alpha actinin 4 expression correlates with metastatic potential of primary endometrial cancer.. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1865(7), 846-857.
DOI Scopus25 WoS25 Europe PMC22
2016 Winderbaum, L., Koch, I., Mittal, P., & Hoffmann, P. (2016). Classification of MALDI-MS imaging data of tissue microarrays using canonical correlation analysis based variable selection. Proteomics, 16(11-12), 1731-1735.
DOI Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC7
2016 Mittal, P., Klingler-Hoffmann, M., Arentz, G., Winderbaum, L., Lokman, N., Zhang, C., . . . Hoffmann, P. (2016). Lymph node metastasis of primary endometrial cancers: associated proteins revealed by MALDI imaging. Proteomics, 16(11-12), 1793-1801.
DOI Scopus28 WoS28 Europe PMC24
2016 Zhang, C., Arentz, G., Winderbaum, L., Lokman, N., Klingler-Hoffmann, M., Mittal, P., . . . Hoffmann, P. (2016). MALDI mass spectrometry imaging reveals decreased CK5 levels in vulvar squamous cell carcinomas compared to the precursor lesion differentiated vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 17(7), 1088-1-1088-12.
DOI Scopus12 WoS9 Europe PMC11
2016 Zammit, C., Weiland, F., Brugger, J., Wade, B., Winderbaum, L., Nies, D., . . . Reith, F. (2016). Proteomic responses to gold(III)-toxicity in the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34. Metallomics, 8(11), 1204-1216.
DOI Scopus34 WoS31 Europe PMC17
2015 Winderbaum, L., Koch, I., Gustafsson, O., Meding, S., & Hoffmann, P. (2015). Feature extraction for proteomics imaging mass spectrometry data. Annals of Applied Statistics, 9(4), 1973-1996.
DOI Scopus12 WoS10
2015 Gustafsson, O., Briggs, M., Condina, M., Winderbaum, L., Pelzing, M., McColl, S., . . . Hoffmann, P. (2015). MALDI imaging mass spectrometry of N-linked glycans on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded murine kidney. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 407(8), 2127-2139.
DOI Scopus76 WoS75 Europe PMC68
2012 Winderbaum, L., Ciobanu, C., Cook, N., Paul, M., Metcalfe, A., & Gilbert, S. (2012). Multivariate analysis of an LA-ICP-MS trace element dataset for pyrite. Mathematical Geosciences, 44(7), 823-842.
DOI Scopus99 WoS102

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Courses I teach (2026 at AU)

  • MATH 1007: Geometry (2026 Semester 1)
  • ENGI 5006: Engineering Data Analytics (2026 Semesters 1 & 2)
  • STAT 1000: Data Skills for Scientists (2026 Semester 2)

Courses I have taught (2022-2025 at UniSA)

  • MATH 2009: Engineering Modelling (2022-2025)
  • MATH 1065: Quantitative Methods in Health (2023-2025)
  • MATH 1066: Essential Mathematics 1: Algebra and Trigonometry (2022-2024)
  • MATH 1055: Calculus 2 (2022)

Other Teaching (before 2022)

  • STAT 4064 / STAT 4067: Applied Predictive Modelling (2020, UWA)
  • GEN 101 Introductory Mathematics (2020-2021, Taylors College)
  • Hacky Hour and Maths Drop-in (2020-2021, UWA)
  • Maths Learning Centre (2011-2019, UoA)

AU: Adelaide University
UniSA: The University of South Australia
UoA: The University of Adelaide
UWA: The University of Western Australia

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2024 - ongoing Member Equity Diversity and Inclusion AustMS Australia
2024 - ongoing Member Equity Diversity and Inclusion AustMS Australia

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