Krista Fischer

Krista Fischer
Fischer in 2021
Born	5 August 1970
Nationality	Estonian
Alma mater	University of Tartu Limburg University
Occupation	Biostatistician

Krista Fischer (born 5 August 1970)[1] is an Estonian biostatistician whose research concerns body mass, genetic variability, and their association with diseases. She is a professor of mathematical statistics in the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Tartu, where she is also an associate professor in the Institute of Genomics.[2]

Education and career

Fischer was an undergraduate at the University of Tartu, specializing in mathematics and statistics, from 1988 to 1992. After earning a master's degree in mathematical statistics at Limburg University in Belgium in 1994, she returned to Tartu for doctoral study, completing her Ph.D. in 1999.[2]

She was a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium, and became an associate professor of public health at the University of Tartu in 2001, becoming a senior lecturer there in 2006. She worked as a senior researcher at the Estonian Genome Center at the University of Tartu from 2010 to 2018, when she became a professor of mathematical statistics. In 2021 she added a second affiliation with the Institute of Genomics.[2]

Recognition

In 2020, Fischer was elected to the Estonian Academy of Sciences.[1]

References

1. "Krista Fischer", Members, Estonian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2021-09-07
2. Curriculum vitae, Estonian Research Information System, retrieved 2021-09-07

External links

• Krista Fischer publications indexed by Google Scholar