Sara van de Geer
Dutch statistician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sara Anna van de Geer (born 7 May 1958 in Leiden)[1] is a Dutch statistician who is a professor in the department of mathematics at ETH Zurich.[2] She is the daughter of psychologist John P. van de Geer.
Sara van de Geer | |
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Van der Geer at Oberwolfach, 2015 | |
| Born | 7 May 1958 Leiden, Netherlands |
| Parent | John P. van de Geer |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Thesis | Regression Analysis and Empirical Processes (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Willem van Zwet Richard D. Gill |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich Paul Sabatier University Leiden University Utrecht University University of Bristol |
Education
She earned a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1987 from Leiden University.[2] Her dissertation, entitled Regression Analysis and Empirical Processes, was supervised by Willem Rutger van Zwet and Richard D. Gill.[3]
Career
She taught at the University of Bristol from 1987 to 1988, at Utrecht University from 1989 to 1990, at Leiden University from 1990 to 1997 and 1999 to 2005, and at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, from 1997 to 1999, before moving to ETH Zurich in September 2005 as a Full Professor.[2][4] There, Van de Geer was the first female professor at the Department of Mathematics.[5]
Recognition
She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010[6] and received the Van Wijngaarden Award in 2016.[7] She is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the International Statistical Institute, a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[2][8][9][4] She became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.[10] She was president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability for the term 2015–2017.[11] In 2018 she was appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach.[12][13] In 2022 she was elected as an international member to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).[14]
Bibliography
Textbooks and lecture notes
- van de Geer, Sara (2016). Estimation and testing under sparsity : École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLV - 2015. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-32773-0.[15]
- Bühlmann, Peter; van de Geer, Sara (2011). Statistics for high-dimensional data : methods, theory and applications. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-20191-2.
- van de Geer, Sara (2009). Empirical processes in M-estimation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-12325-9.
- del Barrio, Eustasio; Deheuvels, Paul; van de Geer, Sara (2007). Lectures on empirical processes : theory and statistical applications. European Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-3-03719-027-2.[16]
- van de Geer, Sara (2000). Applications of empirical process theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65002-X.
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