Andrea Gloria Rotnitzky is an Argentine biostatistician whose research involves

causal inference Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main difference between causal inference and inference of association is that causal inference ana ...

on the effects of

medical intervention A therapy or medical treatment (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications. There are many different ...

s in the face of

missing data In statistics, missing data, or missing values, occur when no data value is stored for the variable in an observation. Missing data are a common occurrence and can have a significant effect on the conclusions that can be drawn from the data. Mis ...

. She is Prentice Endowed Professor of Biostatistics in the

University of Washington School of Public Health The University of Washington School of Public Health is the only public health school located in the Northwest, and is based on the main campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. The School is accredited through the Council o ...

Education and career

Rotnitzky earned a

licenciate A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels. It may be similar to a master's degree when issued by pontifical universities and other universities in Europe, Latin A ...

in mathematics in 1982 at the

University of Buenos Aires The University of Buenos Aires ( es, Universidad de Buenos Aires, UBA) is a public university, public research university in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Established in 1821, it is the premier institution of higher learning in the country and one o ...

. She went to the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree in 1986 and completing her Ph.D. in 1988. Her dissertation, ''Analysis of Generalized Linear Models for Cluster Correlated Data'', was supervised by Nicholas P. Jewell. After postdoctoral research in the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

, Rotnitzky continued at Harvard as an assistant professor of biostatistics from 1989 to 1995, associate professor from 1995 to 2000, and senior lecturer from 2000 to 2005. Meanwhile, she joined the department of economics at

Torcuato di Tella University The Torcuato Di Tella University (''Universidad Torcuato Di Tella'', commonly referred to as UTDT or La Di Tella) is a non-profit private university founded in 1991. Located Buenos Aires, Argentina, it is focused primarily on social sciences. The ...

in Buenos Aires as an associate professor from 2000 to 2005, and as a full professor from 2005 to 2022. In 2022 she became Prentice Endowed Professor of Biostatistics at the

Recognition

Rotnitzky was one of the five inaugural winners of the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, in 2022, given to her with

James Robins James M. Robins is an epidemiologist and biostatistician best known for advancing methods for drawing causal inferences from complex observational studies and randomized trials, particularly those in which the treatment varies with time. He is ...

, Thomas Richardson,

Miguel Hernán Miguel Hernán is a Spanish–American epidemiologist. He is the Director of the CAUSALab, Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Member of the Faculty at the Harvard–MIT Pro ...

, and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, "for their pioneering work on causal inference with applications in medicine and public health". In 2023 she was granted the

Konex Award Konex Foundation Awards, or simply Konex Awards, are cultural awards from the Konex Foundation honouring Argentine cultural personalities. History and purpose Konex Awards are granted by the Konex Foundation, created in 1980 in Argentina. The pur ...

Merit Diploma for her work in Mathematics in the last decade.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rotnitzky, Andrea Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Argentine statisticians Argentine women mathematicians University of Buenos Aires alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty Academic staff of Torcuato di Tella University University of Washington faculty 21st-century Argentine mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians