British mathematician
Valerie Susan Isham (born 1947) is a British applied probabilist and former President of the Royal Statistical Society.
Isham's research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population processes.
Education and career
Isham went to Imperial College London (B.Sc., Ph.D.) where she was a student of prominent statistician David Cox. She has been a professor of probability and statistics at University College London since 1992.
Book
Isham is the coauthor with Cox of the book Point Processes (Chapman & Hall, 1980).[2]
Recognition
Isham was the president of the Royal Statistical Society for 2011–2012. She was awarded its Guy Medal in Bronze in 1990.[4]
In 2018 she received the Forder Lectureship from the London Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Mathematical Society.