• Source: Nanny Wermuth

    • Nanny Wermuth (born 4 December 1943) is the Professor emerita of Statistics, Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg. Her research interests are Multivariate statistical models and their properties, especially graphical Markov models, as well as their applications in the life sciences and in the natural sciences.


    Academic career




    = Education

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    1967 First degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin), University of Munich
    1972 Degree in Statistics (Doctor of Philosophy), Harvard University
    1977 Degree in Medical Statistics (Professor), University of Mainz


    = Professional positions

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    1972–1978 Research Assistant in Statistics; University of Dortmund, University of Mainz
    since 1978 Professor of Statistics and of Methods in Psychology, University of Mainz
    1997–2000 Head of Research and Development, Center of Survey Research, Mannheim
    since 2003 Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg


    = Selected services to the profession

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    1993–2001 Coordinating member of the European Science Foundation network HSSS
    1993–2003 Editorial Advisor for the Springer Series of Statistics
    1995–1996 President, German Region of the International Biometric Society
    2000–2001 President, International Biometric Society
    2001–2004 Chair of the Life Science Committee of the International Statistical Institute
    2008–2009 President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    2007–2010 Associate Editor of Bernoulli


    = Selected recognitions

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    1968–1972 Stipends of the Fulbright Commission, of the International Peace Scholarship Fund and of Harvard University
    1984–1985 Fulbright Scholar, Department of Statistics, Princeton University
    1992 Max Planck-Research Prize, jointly with Sir David Cox, Oxford
    2001 Short term Research Fellowship, Australian National University
    2001–2002 Invited Research Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
    2011–2012 Senior Scientist Research Award, International Agency for Research on Cancer


    = Professional affiliations

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    She was elected as member of the International Statistical Institute (1982) and of the German Academy of Sciences (2002); as fellow of the American Statistical Association (1989) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2001).


    Personal life


    She has four sons with Dr. Dieter Wermuth - Jochen (1969) Martin (1974), Peter (1976) and Ulli (1981)


    References




    External links


    Academic website at Chalmers/University of Gothenburg
    entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project

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