Junaidi is a lecturer in the Statistics Study Program. Currently, he is a head of the Mathematics Department, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty, Tadulako University, Palu. He holds a PhD degree in statistic from Newcastle University (Australia). His research interests are Bayesian Hirarchcial Models and Meta-analysis. R, a statistical programming language, is an essential basis of his research. In his role as counterpart for the CRC 990, he joins the INF project, and works together with its PIs , and .