Gesine Reinert is a University Professor in Statistics at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. She is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, a Fellow of the

Alan Turing Institute The Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, founded in 2015 and largely funded by the UK government. It is named after Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computing ...

, and a Fellow of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

. Her research concerns the

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set ...

and statistics of biological sequences and

biological network A biological network is a method of representing systems as complex sets of binary interactions or relations between various biological entities. In general, networks or graphs are used to capture relationships between entities or objects. A typi ...

s. Reinert has also been associated with the

M. Lothaire M. Lothaire is the pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, many of whom were students of Marcel-Paul Schützenberger. The name is used as the author of several of their joint books about combinatorics on words. The group is named for Lothair I.. ...

pseudonymous mathematical collaboration on

combinatorics on words Combinatorics on words is a fairly new field of mathematics, branching from combinatorics, which focuses on the study of words and formal languages. The subject looks at letters or symbols, and the sequences they form. Combinatorics on words af ...

Education

Reinert earned a diploma in mathematics from the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

in 1989. She went on to graduate study in applied mathematics at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

, completing her Ph.D. in 1994. Her dissertation, in

, was ''A Weak Law of Large Numbers for Empirical Measures via Stein's Method, and Applications'', and was supervised by Andrew Barbour.

Career

Reinert worked as a lecturer at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

from 1994 to 1996 and the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

from 1996 to 1998, and as a senior research fellow at

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

from 1998 to 2000. She joined the Oxford faculty in 2000, and was given a professorship there in 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reinert, Gesine Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British statisticians German statisticians Women statisticians Probability theorists University of Göttingen alumni University of Zurich alumni Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of Keble College, Oxford Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics