Alicia Carriquiry

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Statistics and Animal Science, Iowa State University, 1989; M.S. in Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985; B.S. in Agricultural Engineering, University of the Republic, Uruguay, 1981.

Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, forensic statistics, nutritional epidemiology, and genomic data analysis. Focuses on developing statistical methods for interdisciplinary applications, including food security and public health.

Appointments: Iowa State University President's Chair in Statistics; Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics; Director, Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence.

Awards: Fellow, American Statistical Association; Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics; National Academy of Sciences member, 2016.

Publications: Co-author, Statistics in the Law (Oxford University Press, 2008); numerous articles in Journal of the American Statistical Association and Biometrics.

Editorial Contributions: Editorial board member, Statistical Science; reviewer for multiple statistical journals.

Additional Contributions: Consultant for the National Institutes of Health; keynote speaker at Joint Statistical Meetings, 2020.