Professor Sylvia Richardson

Director at MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge

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Director, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge

Sylvia Richardson is the Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit and has held a Research Professorship in the University of Cambridge since 2012.

Prior to this, Sylvia held the Chair of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London from 2000, and was formerly Directeur de Recherches at the French National Institute for Medical Research INSERM, where she held research positions for 20 years.

In 2019, Sylvia was awarded Commander of the Most Excellent Order British Empire (CBE). Sylvia has also been awarded the Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Sylvia has worked extensively in many areas of biostatistics research and made important contributions to the statistical modelling of complex biomedical data, in particular from a Bayesian perspective.

Her work has contributed to progress in epidemiological understanding and has covered spatial modelling and disease mapping, measurement error problems, mixture and clustering models as well as integrative analysis of observational data from different sources. Her recent research has focused on modelling and analysis of large data problems such as those arising in genomics. She is particularly interested in developing new analytical strategies for integrative and translational genomics, including statistical methodology for risk stratification, discovering disease subtypes, and large scale hierarchical analysis of high dimensional biomedical and multi-omics data.