Alex Liebrecht is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa.  He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. from University of Iowa, a M.S. from Illinois State University, and a B.S. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  His research interests are Bayesian hierarchical modeling, spatio-temporal statistics, environmental statistics, and statistical education.  Prior to being a Lecturer for University of Iowa, Alex taught high school for four years in the Des Moines area where he became passionate about teaching and sharing statistical knowledge with students.