Veronica Bowman

Veronica Elizabeth (Ronni) Bowman OBE FIMA FRSS is a British military statistician specialising in Bayesian inference and uncertainty, and their applications in knowledge management for chemical, biological and radiological threats.[1] She is a professor and data science fellow at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory,[2][3] and an associate member of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute at the University of Southampton.[4]

Education

Bowman was a mathematics student at the University of Southampton, where she earned a BSc with first class honours before completing a doctorate in statistical modelling.[5]

Recognition

Bowman is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society[2] and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.[5]

Bowman was the 2021 winner of the Innovation and Creativity Award at the Women in Defence UK Awards.[6][7] In the 2022 New Year Honours, Bowman was named as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for her work developing CrystalCast, a system for uncertainty analysis and Bayesian model combination that was applied to combine academic and government epidemiological predictions in the COVID-19 pandemic in order to provide an estimate for the basic reproduction number of the disease.[3][1]

References

1. Why Not Getting It Wrong Is Better Than Getting It Right (Speaker biography), Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 9 March 2022, retrieved 2022-11-03
2. RSS fellows recognised in the 2022 New Year Honours, Royal Statistical Society, 4 January 2022, retrieved 2022-11-03
3. "Dstl staff recognised in New Year's Honours List 2022", Salisbury Journal, 31 December 2021, retrieved 2022-11-03
4. "Dr Veronica Bowman, Associate member", Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute: Our staff, University of Southampton, retrieved 2022-11-03
5. Calculating and communicating uncertainty and risk to allow informed decision making (Speaker biography), University of Liverpool, 24 April 2017, retrieved 2022-11-03
6. Women in Defence UK Awards, 2021, retrieved 2022-11-03
7. Dstl Fellow wins national innovation and creativity award: Professor Ronni Bowman's work to combat COVID-19 was recognised at the annual Women in Defence Awards, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, 24 November 2021, retrieved 2022-11-03