Elizabeth Thompson | |
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Born | Elizabeth Alison Thompson May 22, 1949 |
Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
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Doctoral advisor | A. W. F. Edwards |
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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 is the 2017–2018 president of the International Biometric Society.[3]
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]
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]