Elizabeth A. Thompson

Elizabeth Thompson
FRS
Born
Elizabeth Alison Thompson

(1949-05-22) May 22, 1949 (age 75)
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
Scientific career
Institutions
Doctoral advisorA. W. F. Edwards
Doctoral students

Elizabeth Alison Thompson FRS (born May 22, 1949) is a British-born American statistician at the University of Washington.[1] Her research concerns the use of genetic data to infer relationships between individuals and populations.[2] She was the 2017–2018 president of the International Biometric Society.[3]

Education and career

Thompson studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, earning first-class honours in the mathematical tripos in 1970 and completing a diploma in mathematical statistics in 1971.[1] She continued at Cambridge for graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in statistics in 1974 under the supervision of A. W. F. Edwards.[1][4]

After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University she returned to Cambridge as a lecturer in mathematics and mathematical statistics and fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She became a fellow of Newnham in 1981. She moved to the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington in 1985, and added a joint appointment to the Department of Biostatistics in 1988. She became a U.S. citizen in 1997.[1]

Awards and honors

Thompson received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge in 1988,[1] and became an honorary fellow of Newnham in 2013.[1][5]

She became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.[1] In 2008 she joined the National Academy of Sciences.[1][2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.[6]

She is the Carnegie Centenary Professor for 2017 at the University of St Andrews.[7]

Selected publications

  • Cannings, C.; Thompson, E. A.; Skolnick, M. H. (1978), "Probability functions on complex pedigrees", Advances in Applied Probability, 10 (1): 26–61, doi:10.1017/s0001867800029475
  • Guo, Sun Wei; Thompson, Elizabeth A. (1992), "Performing the exact test of Hardy–Weinberg proportion for multiple alleles", Biometrics, 48 (2): 361–372, doi:10.2307/2532296, JSTOR 2532296, PMID 1637966
  • Geyer, Charles J.; Thompson, Elizabeth A. (1992), "Constrained Monte Carlo maximum likelihood for dependent data", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological), 54 (3): 657–699, doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1992.tb01443.x, JSTOR 2345852
  • Geyer, Charles J.; Thompson, Elizabeth A. (1995), "Annealing Markov chain Monte Carlo with applications to ancestral inference", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90 (431): 909–920, doi:10.1080/01621459.1995.10476590, hdl:11299/199610
  • Anderson, E. C.; Thompson, E. A. (2002), "A model-based method for identifying species hybrids using multilocus genetic data", Genetics, 160 (3): 1217–1229, doi:10.1093/genetics/160.3.1217, PMC 1462008, PMID 11901135

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Curriculum vitae (PDF), May 2017, retrieved 2017-09-17
  2. ^ a b "Two UW profs elected to National Academy of Sciences", UWNews, University of Washington, May 1, 2008
  3. ^ Governance, International Biometric Society, retrieved 2017-09-17
  4. ^ Elizabeth A. Thompson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Honorary Fellows, Newnham College, retrieved 2017-09-17
  6. ^ Professor Thompson elected to Royal Society Fellowship, Newnham College, Cambridge, May 10, 2023, retrieved 2023-05-28
  7. ^ Professor Elizabeth Thompson, The Carnegie Trust, archived from the original on 2018-02-13, retrieved 2017-09-18

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