| Nationality | French,British |
|---|---|
| Known for | Transdimensional MCMC |
| Awards | Guy Medal (Silver, 2009) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Warwick,University of Paris V,INSERM,Imperial College, London,University of Cambridge,Medical Research Council |
| Thesis | Some Ergodic Properties of Stopping Time Transformations. (1978) |
Sylvia Therese Richardson is a French/BritishBayesianstatistician and is currently Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge.[1] In 2021 she became the president of theRoyal Statistical Society for the 2021–22 year.[2]
Richardson completed her PhD at theUniversity of Nottingham in 1978 with a thesis entitled "Ergodic properties of stopping time transformations”.[3][4] She then went to study atUniversité Paris-Sud supervised byJean Bretagnolle was awarded aDoctorat d'État for a thesis entitled "Processus spatialement dépendants: convergence vers la normalité, tests d'association et applications" in 1989.[5]
Richardson has been theMRC Research Professor ofBiostatistics at theUniversity of Cambridge, bye-fellow ofEmmanuel College and Director of theMedical Research Council Biostatistics Unit since 2012. Previously, she was chair in Biostatistics atImperial College London from 2000 and before that she was Directeur de Recherches atINSERM and held lectureships atWarwick University and theUniversity of Paris V.[6]
She is co-editor of the volumeMarkov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice withWally Gilks andDavid Spiegelhalter.
Richardson has made significant contributions to Bayesian statistical methodology and the application ofMarkov chain Monte Carlo. Her expertise is inspatial statistics with applications to geographicepidemiology and in biostatistics with applications in biochemical modeling, in particular modeling ofgene expression data.
Richardson was awarded the Guy Medal of TheRoyal Statistical Society in Silver in 2009.[7]She is also a Fellow of theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics,[8] of theInternational Society for Bayesian Analysis[9] and of theAcademy of Medical Sciences.[10]
She was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the2019 Birthday Honours for services to medical statistics.[11]
