ProfessorClaire Gormley

I conduct statistical research and teach statistics to undergraduate and graduate students.

I am the UCD Director of the Research Ireland Centre for Research Training (CRT) in Foundations of Data Science (www.data-science.ie), with Prof. James Gleeson (Director, University of Limerick) and Prof. David Malone (Director, Maynooth University). Our CRT will train over 125 PhD students from 2019 to 2026 in the foundations of data science. I am a Principal Investigator in the VistaMilk Research Centre for Precision Pasture-based Dairying, where I co-lead the AgriFood Informatics research platform, and in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics.

My research develops novel statistical methods, largely based on latent variable models, for the analysis of high dimensional data, often of mixed type. The methods solve applied problems across a range of disciplines, including epigenetics, metabolomics, genomics, social science, sports science and political science.

I am an Associate Editor for the peer-review journals Annals of Applied Statistics and Bayesian Analysis. I am an elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (https://bayesian.org). I was awarded Chartered Statistician (CStat) status by the Royal Statistical Society and was an elected member of Council of the Royal Statistical Society 2017-2020.