Scholar
Alexandra M. Schmidt
Google Scholar ID: fYTIHUYAAAAJ
McGill University, Canada
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,200
H-index
18
i10-index
34
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Elected Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2024), the American Statistical Association (2020), and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (2010). Awarded the Distinguished Achievement Medal (2017) from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and the Environment and the Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Investigator Award (2008) from The International Environmetrics Society. Served as the President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2015. Published multiple academic papers, including 'Spatio – Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology with R'.
Research Experience
- Worked at the Department of Statistical Methods, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 2002 to 2016, becoming a Full Professor of Statistics in 2012. Currently, she is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health (EBOH) at McGill University. She is also an Associate Member of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Quantitative Life Sciences Program (QLS).
Education
- PhD in Statistics, 2001, University of Sheffield, UK; MSc in Statistics, 1996, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; BSc in Statistics, 1994, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Background
- Professor of Biostatistics, with research interests in Bayesian Inference, Dynamic Models, Hierarchical Models, and Spatial Statistics.
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