Name Alison Etheridge | Institution University of Oxford | |
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Born Alison Mary Etheridge
April 27, 1964 (age 59)
Wolverhampton ( 1964-04-27 ) Fields Probability
Population genetics
Mathematical ecology Institutions University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
University of California, Berkeley
University of Edinburgh
Queen Mary University of London Alma mater University of Oxford (DPhil) Thesis Asymptotic Behaviour of Some Measure-Valued Diffusions (1989) Doctoral students Nic Freeman
Mark Meredith
Anja Sturm
Amandine Veber | ||
Doctoral advisor David Albert Edwards | ||
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Alison Mary Etheridge OBE FRS (born 1964) is Professor of Probability at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
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Education
Etheridge was educated at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a DPhil in 1989 for research supervised by David Albert Edwards.
Career and research
Following her PhD, Etheridge held research fellowships in Oxford and Cambridge and positions at the University of California, Berkeley, The University of Edinburgh and Queen Mary University of London before returning to Oxford in 1997.
Her interests have ranged from abstract mathematical problems to concrete applications as reflected in her four books which range from a research monograph on mathematical objects called superprocesses to an exploration (co-authored with Mark H. A. Davis) of the percolation of ideas from the groundbreaking thesis of Louis Bachelier in 1900 to modern mathematical finance.
Much of her recent research is concerned with mathematical models of population genetics, where she has been particularly involved in efforts to understand the effects of spatial structure of populations on their patterns of genetic variation.
Awards and honours
Etheridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads:
Etheridge became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016. Her citation reads:
On 1 August 2017 she begins a one-year term as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, where she is currently president-elect.
She won the Senior Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2017, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to science.