Congratulations to Professor Sylvia Richardson, Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit, who has been awarded the degree of doctor philosophiae causa for 2017 by the University of Oslo. 

Professor Richardson has worked extensively in many areas of biostatistics research and made important contributions to the statistical modelling of complex biomedical data, in particular from a Bayesian perspective.

Her work has contributed to progress in epidemiological understanding and has covered spatial modelling and disease mapping, measurement error problems, mixture and clustering models as well as integrative analysis of observational data from different sources.