Catalina Vallejos


Short CV


  • [2018-] Chancellor’s Fellow and Group Leader, MRC Human Genetics Unit (University of Edinburgh)
  • [2018-] Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute
  • [2017] Group Leader, The Alan Turing Institute - Lloyd’s Register Foundation programme on data-centric engineering
  • [2016-2018] Research Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute and UCL Department of Statistical Science
  • [2014-2016] Postdoctoral Researcher MRC Biostatistics Unit and EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute. Mentors: Sylvia Richardson and John Marioni
  • [2010-2014] PhD Student, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. Supervisor: Mark Steel
  • [2009-2010] MSc Student, Department of Statistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • [2004-2008] BSc Student, Department of Statistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


Other professional activity


  • [2018+] Associate Editor, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • [2017+] Steering Commitee, Royal Statistical Society Statistical Computing Section & Computational Statistics and Machine Learning group
  • [2017+] Steering Commitee, Royal Statistical Society Emerging Applications Section
  • Society membership: International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Royal Statistical Society
  • Reviewer: Bioinformatics, Biometrics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Genome Biology, Statistics and Its Interface, PLoS Computational Biology, Statistical Methods and Applications, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Statistics and Probability Letters