Veronica Bowman

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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]

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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]

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  3. 1 2 "Dstl staff recognised in New Year's Honours List 2022", Salisbury Journal, 31 December 2021, retrieved 2022-11-03
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  5. 1 2 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
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