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Harvard Professor heads CSIRO maths research

MAR 09, 2009
Physics Today

A Professor and former Chair of Biostatistics at the prestigious Harvard University in Boston, USA, Dr Louise Ryan, has been appointed Chief of CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences.

An Australian who left for the US 29 years ago to do her PhD, Dr Ryan has a distinguished career in biostatistics — a field which develops new statistical methods for health and medicine, biology and environmental sciences. She is no stranger to CSIRO, having visited many times over the years, including most recently on a Fellowship from the Harvard Club Foundation of Australia.

Read more at: http://www.csiro.au/news/New-Chief-for-CMIS.html

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