Historic AcadMathSci Fellowship awarded to Professor Veronica Bowman OBE
Professor Bowman is part of the Academy’s milestone inaugural cohort.
Professor Veronica Bowman, Honorary Professor, School of Mathematics
Through this Fellowship, the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences aims to unite the UK’s strongest mathematical scientists across academia, education, business, industry and government to solve pressing national challenges. The appointed Founding Fellows were recognised for being a leader in their field through fundamental discoveries, exceptional educational work or the application of mathematics within our critical national infrastructure.
An Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham, Professor Veronica Bowman OBE is a statistician and modeller specialising in Bayesian inference and uncertainty and their applications in decision making, digital twins and modelling architecture. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and has won the 2021 Innovation and Creativity Award at the Women in Defence UK Awards. She was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for developing CrystalCast, a system for uncertainty analysis and Bayesian model combination used to provide an estimate for the spread of disease during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Veronica Bowman OBE said: “I am incredibly honoured to be named among such an inspiring group of mathematicians. A really strong mathematical talent pipeline is critical and this is an opportunity to work as a community to strengthen that pipeline and really make the case for investment in mathematical sciences to deliver impact for the UK.”
Fellows will work together to tackle issues such as climate change, prevention of future pandemics, ethical AI use, future maths curricula, national security, energy storage, and public service improvements among other areas of focus.
Professor Bowman will serve as a Fellow in parallel with her Honorary Professorship at Birmingham, current role at Paebbl, and as an Associate Member of the University of Southampton.
A really strong mathematical talent pipeline is critical and this is an opportunity to work as a community to strengthen that pipeline and really make the case for investment in mathematical sciences to deliver impact for the UK.
Professor Veronica Bowman, Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham said: “I am incredibly honoured to be named among such an inspiring group of mathematicians. A really strong mathematical talent pipeline is critical and this is an opportunity to work as a community to strengthen that pipeline and really make the case for investment in mathematical sciences to deliver impact for the UK.”
Fellows will work together to tackle issues such as climate change, prevention of future pandemics, ethical AI use, future maths curricula, national security, energy storage, and public service improvements among other areas of focus.
Professor Bowman will serve as a Fellow in parallel with her Honorary Professorship at Birmingham, current role at Paebbl, and as an Associate Member of the University of Southampton.
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