Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter

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Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (* May 21, 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian statistician and since September 1, 2011 Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1977, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter studied technical mathematics (elective business mathematics ) at the Technical University of Vienna . After working as a contract assistant at the Institute for Hydraulics , Hydrology and Water Management at the TU, she received her doctorate in 1988. She then worked as a postdoc at the Institute for Probability Theory and Statistics at the TU, Department of Regional and Information Science Statistics, and as a university assistant at the Institute for Statistics at the University of Economics and Business Vienna , Department for Experimental Mathematics and Statistics. From 1996 she taught at this institute as an associate professor. In addition, she received the license to teach statistics at WU. In 2003 she was appointed professor for social and economic statistics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz . From 2003 to 2011 she was editor of the Statistical Papers, since 2007 she has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometrics.

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter is married to the statistician Rudolf Frühwirth, who used to work at HEPHY and has now retired, and is the mother of three sons.

Main focus of work and research

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter is best known for her work in the field of Bayesian statistics and the development of efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. She is the author of an influential, award-winning monograph in the field of finite mixture models. The areas of application of her work are in the field of economics and social sciences. She is an active member of the ISBA (International Society of Bayesian Analysis), of which she has been a board member since 2008.

Prices

  • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (2007)
  • DeGroot Prize 2007 (Prize of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis for an outstanding monograph in the field of statistics)
  • WU Best Paper Award 2005 (Prize from the City of Vienna's Jubilee Fund for excellent publications at the Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  • Award of the Senator Wilfling Foundation for the promotion of scientific research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (1997)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HEPHY
  2. ↑ Rudolf Frühwirth
  3. ^ Springer Verlag
  4. ↑ ISBA
personal data
SURNAME Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian statistician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna