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British statistician

Veronica Elizabeth (Ronni) Bowman OBE FIMA FRSS is a British military statistician specialising in Bayesian inference and uncertainty, and their applications in knowledge management for chemical, biological and radiological threats. She is a professor and data science fellow at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and an associate member of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute at the University of Southampton.

Education

Bowman was a mathematics student at the University of Southampton, where she earned a BSc with first class honours before completing a doctorate in statistical modelling.

Recognition

Bowman is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

Bowman was the 2021 winner of the Innovation and Creativity Award at the Women in Defence UK Awards. In the 2022 New Year Honours, Bowman was named as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for her work developing CrystalCast, a system for uncertainty analysis and Bayesian model combination that was applied to combine academic and government epidemiological predictions in the COVID-19 pandemic in order to provide an estimate for the basic reproduction number of the disease.

References

  1. ^ Why Not Getting It Wrong Is Better Than Getting It Right (Speaker biography), Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 9 March 2022, retrieved 2022-11-03
  2. ^ RSS fellows recognised in the 2022 New Year Honours, Royal Statistical Society, 4 January 2022, retrieved 2022-11-03
  3. ^ "Dstl staff recognised in New Year's Honours List 2022", Salisbury Journal, 31 December 2021, retrieved 2022-11-03
  4. "Dr Veronica Bowman, Associate member", Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute: Our staff, University of Southampton, retrieved 2022-11-03
  5. ^ Calculating and communicating uncertainty and risk to allow informed decision making (Speaker biography), University of Liverpool, 24 April 2017, retrieved 2022-11-03
  6. Women in Defence UK Awards, 2021, retrieved 2022-11-03
  7. Dstl Fellow wins national innovation and creativity award: Professor Ronni Bowman's work to combat COVID-19 was recognised at the annual Women in Defence Awards, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 24 November 2021, retrieved 2022-11-03
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