Alison Etheridge

Alison Mary Etheridge OBE FRS[4] (born 1964)[1] is Professor of Probability and Head of the Department of Statistics,[6] University of Oxford.[7][8][9][10][11] Etheridge is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[12]

Alison Etheridge

OBE FRS
Alison Etheridge at the Royal Society admissions day in 2015
Born
Alison Mary Etheridge

(1964-04-27) 27 April 1964[1]
Wolverhampton[1]
CitizenshipBritish
EducationSmestow Comprehensive School[1]
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (MA, DPhil)[2]
Spouse(s)
Lionel Mason
​
(m. 1997)​
[1]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisAsymptotic Behaviour of Some Measure-Valued Diffusions (1989)
Doctoral advisorDavid Albert Edwards[5][2]
Website

Education

Etheridge was educated at Smestow School[1] and the University of Oxford where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1989[2] for research supervised by David Albert Edwards.[5][13]

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.[4]

Over the course of her career, 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.[4]

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.[4]

Etheridge has made significant contributions in the theory and applications of probability and in the links between them.[4] Her particular areas of research have been in measure-valued processes (especially superprocesses and their generalisations); in theoretical population genetics; and in mathematical ecology.[4] A recent focus has been on the genetics of spatially extended populations, where she has exploited and developed inextricable links with infinite-dimensional stochastic analysis.[4] Her resolution of the so-called 'pain in the torus' is typical of her work in that it draws on ideas from diverse areas, from measure-valued processes to image analysis.[4] The result is a flexible framework for modelling biological populations which, for the first time, combines ecology and genetics in a tractable way, while introducing a novel and mathematically interesting class of stochastic processes.[4] The breadth of her contributions is further illustrated by the topics of her four books, which range from the history of financial mathematics to mathematical modelling in population genetics.[4][14]

Awards and honours

Etheridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.[4] and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016. Her citation reads:

for outstanding research on measure-valued stochastic processes and applications to population biology; and for international leadership and impressive service to the profession.[15]

On 1 August 2017, she begins a one-year term as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, where she is currently president-elect.[16] She was awarded the Senior Anne Bennett Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2017,[17] and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to science.[18]

References
  1. Anon (2016). "Etheridge, Prof. Alison Mary (Mrs Lionel Mason)". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284138. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. Etheridge, Alison Mary (1989). Asymptotic Behaviour of Some Measure-Valued Diffusions. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 556534862. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.329943.
  3. "List of LMS prize winners - London Mathematical Society". www.lms.ac.uk.
  4. Anon (2015). "Professor Alison Etheridge FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. Alison Etheridge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. "Alison Etheridge, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford". Department of Statistics.
  7. Alison Etheridge publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. Barton, N. H.; Etheridge, A.M. (2004). "The Effect of Selection on Genealogies". Genetics. 166 (2): 1115–1131. doi:10.1534/genetics.166.2.1115. ISSN 0016-6731. PMC 1470728. PMID 15020491.
  9. Barton, N. H.; Depaulis, F; Etheridge, A. M. (2002). "Neutral evolution in spatially continuous populations". Theoretical Population Biology. 61 (1): 31–48. doi:10.1006/tpbi.2001.1557. PMID 11895381.
  10. Etheridge, A. M.; Labbé, C. (2014). "Scaling limits of weakly asymmetric interfaces". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 336: 287–336. arXiv:1403.2342. Bibcode:2015CMaPh.336..287E. doi:10.1007/s00220-014-2243-2. S2CID 119257791.
  11. Kelleher, J; Barton, N. H.; Etheridge, A. M. (2013). "Coalescent simulation in continuous space". Bioinformatics. 29 (7): 955–6. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt067. PMID 23391497.
  12. "Professor Alison Etheridge - Magdalen College Oxford". www.magd.ox.ac.uk.
  13. Etheridge, A. M.; Finnis, M. W. (1985). "Instability of the rate equations for creep coupled to swelling". Journal of Nuclear Materials. 132 (3): 277–283. Bibcode:1985JNuM..132..277E. doi:10.1016/0022-3115(85)90372-1.
  14. "Professor Alison Etheridge FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015.
  15. "IMS Fellows 2016". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017.
  16. "Current officials". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016.
  17. "2017 LMS prize winners announced". aperiodical.com. The Aperiodical. Retrieved 2017-07-17
  18. "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B11.

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