Dr. Patricia Menéndez
Position: Senior Lecturer
Department: School of Mathematics and Statistics
University/Institute/Company: University of Melbourne
About
Educated in Spain, Japan and Switzerland, Patricia Menéndez is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne.
Patricia’s training is in mathematics and Statistics and she received her PhD from the Mathematics Department at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Since completing her PhD she has held academic positions at Wageningen University, Public University of the Navarre, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland and Monash University.
Before joining the University of Melbourne, she has also worked outside academia as statistician for the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and for the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
Patricia has experience working on multidisciplinary projects to answer research and policy-making questions in the fields of climate change, environmental and marine sciences besides criminology. She has expertise developing and applying statistical methodology and computational methods as well as providing statistical training. She is very passionate about the application and development of statistical methodology to solve real life problems and bringing statistical knowledge closer to other disciplines.
Her research interests include statistical methods for time series, computational statistics, machine learning, data visualisation tools and data science. She is also an enthusiastic educator.
Disciplines: Mathematics
- Mathematics: Applied Mathematics, Statistics
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