Catalina Vallejos

Short CV

• [2025+] Co-Director Health Data Research UK Scotland
• [2024+] ELLIS Health Scholar
• [2023+] Reader, MRC Human Genetics Unit (University of Edinburgh)
• [2022-2023] Lecturer, MRC Human Genetics Unit (University of Edinburgh)
• [2018-2022] Chancellor’s Fellow, MRC Human Genetics Unit (University of Edinburgh)
• [2018-2024] 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

Publications

See Google Scholar for an up-to-date list of my publications.

Other professional roles and contributions

[2024+] Member, Research Culture Group, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh

[2023+] Co-Director, Cross Disciplinary Fellowships (XDF) programme, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh

[2022+] Steering Board, Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology ISCB COSI

[2021-2024] Associate Editor, Bayesian Analysis

[2021+] Academic Steering Committee, MRC Precision Medicine DTP, UoE and Glasgow

[2019+] Advisory board, Review Commons

[2019+] Statistics advisory board, Cell Press

[2018+] Associate Editor, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

[2017-2020] Steering Committee, Royal Statistical Society Statistical Computing Section & Computational Statistics and Machine Learning group

[2017-2020] Steering Committee, Royal Statistical Society Emerging Applications Section