Montserrat Fuentes

Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes is a Spanish statistician. Formerly the James M. Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University (NCSU), she has been Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University since 2016.[1] She is also the Coordinating Editor and Applications and Case Studies Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association.[2][3] In her research, she applies spatial analysis to atmospheric science.[4]

Education and career

Fuentes earned two bachelor's degrees in 1993 from the University of Valladolid, one in music and piano, and a second in mathematics and statistics. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1998 from the University of Chicago.[5] Her dissertation, supervised by Michael L. Stein, was Prediction of Random Fields and Modeling Spatialtemporal Satellite Data.[6] After visiting positions at the Joint Research Center of the European Union in Italy, AT&T Labs, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, she joined the NCSU faculty in 1998.[5]

Awards and honors

Fuentes became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[5] She became the James M. Goodnight Distinguished Professor at NCSU in 2015.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Montse Fuentes, Virginia Commonwealth University, retrieved 2017-10-28
  2. ↑ "Editorial board", Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor&Francis, retrieved 2017-10-28
  3. ↑ Q&A with Montse Fuentes, Journal of the American Statistical Association Editor, Applications and Case Studies section, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-28
  4. ↑ Shipman, Matt (August 13, 2014), This Is What Science Looks Like at NC State: Montse Fuentes, retrieved 2017-10-28
  5. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae (PDF), Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-28
  6. ↑ Montserrat Fuentes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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