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Elizabeth A. Thompson

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Elizabeth Alison Thompson (botn May 22, 1949) is an English-born American statistician at the University of Washington.[1] Her research concerns the use of genetic data to infer relationships between individuals and populations.[2] She is the 2017–2018 president of the International Biometric Society.[3]

Education and career

Thompson studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, earning first-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1970 and completing a diploma in mathematical statistics in 1971.[1] She continued at Cambridge for graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in statistics in 1974 under the supervision of A. W. F. Edwards.[1][4]

After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University she returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in mathematics and mathematical statistics and fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She became a fellow of Newnham in 1981. She moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington in 1985, and added a joint appointment to the Department of Biostatistics in 1988. She became a US citizen in 1997.[1]

Awards and honors

Thompson received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge in 1988,[1] and became an honorary fellow of Newnham in 2013.[1][5]

She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.[1] In 2008 she joined the National Academy of Sciences.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 2017, retrieved 2017-09-17
  2. ^ a b "Two UW profs elected to National Academy of Sciences", UWNews, University of Washington, May 1, 2008
  3. ^ Governance, International Biometric Society, retrieved 2017-09-17
  4. ^ Elizabeth A. Thompson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Honorary Fellows, Newnham College, retrieved 2017-09-17
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