Nanny Wermuth

Nanny Wermuth (born 4 December 1943) is the Professor emerita of Statistics, Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg.^[1] Her research interests are Multivariate statistical models and their properties, especially graphical Markov models, as well as their applications in the life sciences and in the natural sciences.

• 1967 First degree in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirtin), University of Munich
• 1972 Degree in Statistics (Doctor of Philosophy), Harvard University
• 1977 Degree in Medical Statistics (Professor), University of Mainz

• 1972–1978 Research Assistant in Statistics; University of Dortmund, University of Mainz
• since 1978 Professor of Statistics and of Methods in Psychology, University of Mainz
• 1997–2000 Head of Research and Development, Center of Survey Research, Mannheim
• since 2003 Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg

• 1993–2001 Coordinating member of the European Science Foundation network HSSS
• 1993–2003 Editorial Advisor for the Springer Series of Statistics
• 1995–1996 President, German Region of the International Biometric Society
• 2000–2001 President, International Biometric Society
• 2001–2004 Chair of the Life Science Committee of the International Statistical Institute
• 2008–2009 President, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• 2007–2010 Associate Editor of Bernoulli

• 1968–1972 Stipends of the Fulbright Commission, of the International Peace Scholarship Fund and of Harvard University
• 1984–1985 Fulbright Scholar, Department of Statistics, Princeton University
• 1992 Max Planck-Research Prize, jointly with Sir David Cox, Oxford
• 2001 Short term Research Fellowship, Australian National University
• 2001–2002 Invited Research Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• 2011–2012 Senior Scientist Research Award, International Agency for Research on Cancer

She was elected as member of the International Statistical Institute (1982) and of the German Academy of Sciences (2002); as fellow of the American Statistical Association (1989) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2001).

She has four sons with Dr. Dieter Wermuth - Jochen (1969) Martin (1974), Peter (1976) and Ulli (1981)

• Academic website at Chalmers/University of Gothenburg
• entry at Mathematics Genealogy Project