Sara Anna van de Geer (born 7 May 1958 in Leiden)[1] is a Dutch statistician who is a professor in the department of mathematics at ETH Zurich.[2] She is the daughter of psychologist John P. van de Geer.

Sara van de Geer
Van der Geer at Oberwolfach, 2015
Born (1958-05-07) 7 May 1958 (age 66)
NationalityDutch
ParentJohn P. van de Geer
Academic background
Alma materLeiden University
ThesisRegression Analysis and Empirical Processes (1987)
Doctoral advisorWillem van Zwet
Richard D. Gill
Academic work
DisciplineStatistics
InstitutionsETH Zurich
Paul Sabatier University
Leiden University
Utrecht University
University of Bristol

Education

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She earned a master's degree in 1982 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1987 from Leiden University.[2] Her dissertation, entitled Regression Analysis and Empirical Processes, was supervised by Willem Rutger van Zwet and Richard D. Gill.[3]

Career

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She taught at the University of Bristol from 1987 to 1988, at Utrecht University from 1989 to 1990, at Leiden University from 1990 to 1997 and 1999 to 2005, and at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, from 1997 to 1999, before moving to ETH Zurich in September 2005 as a Full Professor.[2][4] There, she was the first female professor at the Department of Mathematics.[5]

Recognition

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She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010[6] and received the Van Wijngaarden Award in 2016.[7] She is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the International Statistical Institute, a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[2][8][9][4] She became a member of the Academia Europaea in 2020.[10] She was president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability for the term 2015–2017.[11] In 2018 she was appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach.[12][13] In 2022 she was elected as an international member to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).[14]

Bibliography

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Textbooks and lecture notes

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  • van de Geer, Sara (2016). Estimation and testing under sparsity : École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLV - 2015. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-32773-0.[15]
  • Bühlmann, Peter; van de Geer, Sara (2011). Statistics for high-dimensional data : methods, theory and applications. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-20191-2.
  • van de Geer, Sara (2009). Empirical processes in M-estimation. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-12325-9.
  • del Barrio, Eustasio; Deheuvels, Paul; van de Geer, Sara (2007). Lectures on empirical processes : theory and statistical applications. European Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-3-03719-027-2.[16]
  • van de Geer, Sara (2000). Applications of empirical process theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-65002-X.

References

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  1. ^ "S.A. van de Geer at "Leiden Faculty since 1575"". Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae: Sara van de Geer (PDF), retrieved 2 October 2015.
  3. ^ Sara van de Geer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b European Women in Mathematics. "Sara van de Geer". europeanwomeninmaths.org. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  5. ^ ETH Zürich (30 November 2010). Gender Monitoring 2009, Departementsberichte: Mathematik (PDF) (Report). p. 5. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  6. ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, archived from the original on 24 November 2017, retrieved 2 October 2015.
  7. ^ CWI soiree & Van Wijngaarden Award Ceremony, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, 1 September 2016, archived from the original on 25 September 2016, retrieved 1 September 2016
  8. ^ List of Members: Prof. Dr. Sara Anna van de Geer, Leopoldina, retrieved 2 October 2015.
  9. ^ "Geer, Prof. dr. S. A. van de", Correspondenten, KNAW, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 2 October 2015.
  10. ^ List of members, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2 October 2020
  11. ^ Who is Who in the Bernoulli Society, archived from the original on 11 April 2017, retrieved 2 October 2015.
  12. ^ "Scientific Committee, Members 2019". mfo.de. Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  13. ^ "Sara van de Geer: member of the Oberwolfach Scientific Committee". math.ethz.ch. ETH Zurich. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  14. ^ "2022 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  15. ^ Cox, D.R. (2016). "Estimation and Testing under Sparsity Sara van de Geer Springer, 2016, xiii 274 pages, $59.99, softback ISBN: 978-3-319-32773-0". International Statistical Review. 84 (3): 550. doi:10.1111/insr.12198. ISSN 0306-7734.
  16. ^ "Review of Lectures on empirical processes". European Mathematical Society. 1 June 2011.
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