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Inmaculada Arostegui<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Full Professor, Universidad del Pa\u00eds Vasco\/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV\/EHU)
BIOSTATNET node: Pa\u00eds Vasco
Research group: BIOSTIT (Grupo de Investigaci\u00f3n en Bioestad\u00edstica, UPV\/EHU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She holds a degree in Mathematics from the UPV\/EHU, a Master of Health Science in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University (1996) and a PhD from the UPV\/EHU (2007). She is a Full Professor in the Departamento de Matem\u00e1tica Aplicada, Estad\u00edstica e Investigaci\u00f3n Operativa at the UPV\/EHU, a research collaborator at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), and leads the BIOSTIT research group. She also works as a statistical advisor for the Hospital de Galdakao (Osakidetza). Her research focuses on the development and validation of prediction models, the modelling of patient-reported outcomes (such as health-related quality of life), longitudinal data analysis and risk stratification.<\/summary>\n

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Anabel Blasco<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Servei d’Estad\u00edstica Aplicada
Adjunct Professor, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB)
BIOSTATNET node: Catalunya – SEA
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She is a statistician at the Servei d’Estad\u00edstica Aplicada of the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, where she also teaches Design of Experiments on the Grau en Estad\u00edstica Aplicada. Her research focuses on modelling count data, particularly how to handle zeros: distinguishing false, structural and random zeros and choosing the right statistical model for each case. With Pedro Puig and Marta P\u00e9rez-Casany, she co-authored a widely cited paper on this topic in Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2019). She has also worked on methods for estimating population size in capture-recapture experiments and collaborates with research teams in ecology, veterinary science and food science.<\/summary>\n

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Maria Lorena Correa Abenda\u00f1o<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Predoctoral Researcher, Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroaliment\u00e0ries (IRTA) \u2013 Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroaliment\u00e0ries
BIOSTATNET node: Catalunya – SEA
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She is a predoctoral researcher in epidemiology in the Programa de Sanitat Animal of IRTA, at the Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), located on the campus of the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona. Her research focuses on applying statistical methods to epidemiological surveillance in animal health, in particular the use of hidden Markov models for the surveillance of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), one of the diseases with the greatest economic impact on pig production.<\/summary>\n

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Jaione Etxeberria<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Universidad P\u00fablica de Navarra (UPNA)
BIOSTATNET node: Navarra Spatial Statistics
Research group: Estad\u00edstica Espacial (UPNA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is an Associate Professor in the Departamento de Estad\u00edstica, Inform\u00e1tica y Matem\u00e1ticas at the UPNA and a member of the Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics (INAMAT2). She received her PhD from the UPNA in 2012 with a thesis on space-time disease mapping modelling and forecasting, supervised by Mar\u00eda Dolores Ugarte and Tom\u00e1s Goicoa. Her research focuses on disease mapping and spatio-temporal models in epidemiology, particularly cancer incidence forecasting. She has supervised doctoral theses in this field.<\/summary>\n

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Guadalupe G\u00f3mez Melis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Full Professor, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC)
BIOSTATNET node: Catalunya – BIO
Research group: GRBIO (Grup de Recerca en Bioestad\u00edstica i Bioinform\u00e0tica, UPC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She graduated in Mathematics from the Universitat de Barcelona and received her PhD in Statistics from Columbia University, New York (1986). After a period as Assistant Professor at Ohio State University, she joined the Departament d’Estad\u00edstica i Investigaci\u00f3 Operativa at the UPC, where she has been a Full Professor since 2005. She has been a visiting scientist at Harvard University, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (Vietnam) and the MD Anderson Cancer Center (Texas). She leads the GRBIO research group and was a funder co-PI of BIOSTATNET. She has served as President of the Consell Catal\u00e0 d’Estad\u00edstica, the Societat Catalana d’Estad\u00edstica and the Spanish Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS), where she now serves as a director on the Executive Board. Her research focuses on survival analysis, clinical trials and data with complex censoring patterns.<\/summary>\n

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Mar\u00eda P. Pata<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Biostatistician, Biostatech Advice, Training and Innovation in Biostatistics, S.L.
BIOSTATNET node: Galicia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She works at Biostatech, a technology-based company in biostatistics and applied statistics founded in 2012 and recognised as the best technology spin-off of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 2022. Based in Ames (A Coru\u00f1a), Biostatech supports researchers and companies in the Life and Health Sciences at every stage of a study, from optimal experimental design to data processing and analysis.<\/summary>\n

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Nuria P\u00e9rez \u00c1lvarez<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC)
BIOSTATNET node: Catalunya – BIO
Research group: GRBIO (Grup de Recerca en Bioestad\u00edstica i Bioinform\u00e0tica, UPC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a biostatistician with more than 20 years of experience at research institutions including the Institut de Recerca de l\u2019Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, the Fundaci\u00f3 de Lluita contra la Sida, and IMIM. She received her PhD from UPC in 2014 with a thesis on economic evaluation in health research. She is a member of the Research Group in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (GRBio) and the Research and Innovation in Health Institute (IRIS). Author of 109 publications resulting from applied research in medicine, her work spans infectious diseases (mainly HIV\/AIDS, tuberculosis, COVID-19), kidney and cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, and knee osteoarthritis. She specialises in the design, analysis, and interpretation of clinical studies, with particular attention to longitudinal, high-dimensional, and missing data. She is actively involved in outreach activities and professional service, serving as a board member of the Societat Catalana d\u2019Estad\u00edstica (2016\u20132025), Social Media Officer for the International Biometric Society (2022\u20132024), and Country Representative for the Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (2024\u2013).<\/summary><\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gema Pigueiras Voces<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Universidad de C\u00e1diz
BIOSTATNET node: Andaluc\u00eda Occidental<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She holds a degree in Mathematics from the Universidad de C\u00e1diz (2010) and a PhD from the Programa de Doctorado Interuniversitario en Matem\u00e1ticas (2019), with an internationally recognised thesis on premium principles and inequality measures based on mixtures of order statistics. She is an Associate Professor in the Departamento de Estad\u00edstica e Investigaci\u00f3n Operativa at the Facultad de Ciencias of the Universidad de C\u00e1diz. Her research lies in actuarial science, with a particular interest in stochastic orders, risk measures and inequality measures.<\/summary>\n

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Andrea Ruiz Vega<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PhD Researcher, Universidad de Granada
BIOSTATNET node: Granada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a Substitute Lecturer at the Universidad de Granada, where she is also completing her PhD under the supervision of Miguel \u00c1ngel Montero-Alonso and Juan de Dios Luna. Her research focuses on mixture distribution models (normal and skew-normal) applied to the age distribution of suicide mortality, with applications to several Spanish regions. She has presented this work at BIOSTATNET meetings, the Sociedad Espa\u00f1ola de Biometr\u00eda and international conferences.<\/summary>\n

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Mar\u00eda S\u00e1nchez Mart\u00edn<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Researcher, Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n Biom\u00e9dica de Salamanca (IBSAL)
BIOSTATNET node: DoE+Bioinform\u00e1tica<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n Biom\u00e9dica de Salamanca (IBSAL), a translational research centre established by the Junta de Castilla y Le\u00f3n and the Universidad de Salamanca. She is part of BIOSTATNET’s Design of Experiments and Bioinformatics node, which works on the optimal design of studies and the statistical analysis of biomedical and omics data.<\/summary>\n

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Blanca Sarzo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Postdoctoral Researcher (Sara Borrell contract), Fundaci\u00f3 per al Foment de la Investigaci\u00f3 Sanit\u00e0ria i Biom\u00e8dica de la Comunitat Valenciana (FISABIO)
BIOSTATNET node: Valencia – VABAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She holds a PhD in Statistics from the Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia (2020), with a thesis on Bayesian survival analysis in ecology supervised by David Conesa, Carmen Armero and Jonas Hentati-Sundberg. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with a Sara Borrell contract at FISABIO. She was previously a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva (ICBBE) of the Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia. Her research applies Bayesian statistical methods to problems in health and ecology, and she has collaborated on epidemiological studies in the Valencian Community.<\/summary><\/details>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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