Dr Catalina Vallejos

Catalina is a Chancellor's Fellow at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, where she leads the Biomedical Data Science research group. 

Before moving to Edinburgh, Catalina was part of the first cohort of Turing Research Fellows. As part of her Fellowship, Catalina was also a Group Leader within the Lloyds Register Foundation-Turing Programme on Data-Centric Engineering. 

Between 2014 and 2016, Catalina was a Postdoctoral Fellow in a joint appointment between the MRC Biostatistics Unit (MRC-BSU) and the EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), both located in Cambridge (UK). In this position, she was a member of the Statistical Genomics research group (MRC-BSU) and the Marioni group (EMBL-EBI) which are respectively lead by Professor Sylvia Richardson and Dr John Marioni. 

Education

Catalina completed a PhD in Statistics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Warwick, under the supervision of Professor Mark Steel. Her PhD thesis covered theoretical and practical aspects of Bayesian inference and survival analysis. She completed her undergraduate and MSc studies in Chile: BSc in Mathematics (Statistics track) and MSc in Statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. During her BSc studies, Catalina also completed a Certificate in Economics. Her MSc dissertation project was in the area of long memory time times, under the supervision of Dr Wilfredo Palma.