Rose Dawn Baker is a British physicist, mathematician, and statistician. She is a professor emeritus of applied statistics in the Salford Business School at the University of Salford.^[1]

Education and career

Baker read physics at the University of Cambridge, earned a master's degree there in 1968, and completed her Ph.D. in 1972.^[1] Her dissertation concerned bubble chambers.^[2]

After a year in India as a lecturer in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, she returned to England as a researcher at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire, where she worked from 1973 to 1977.^[2]

At that time, as she writes, "funds began drying up in big physics",^[2] so she moved to the University of Salford, where she worked in computing services from 1977 to 1990. In 1990, she became a lecturer in the department of mathematics at Salford, and in 1998 she moved to statistics as a reader. She was given a personal chair in 2001,^[1] and retired in 2013.^[3]

Recognition

Baker is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.^[1] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.^[4] She has won the Catherine Richards Prize of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications twice, in 2002 for a paper on paradoxes in probability theory and in 2010 for her work providing a formula for the health effects of obesity, as a function of body mass index.^[5]