Catalina Vallejos

Catalina Vallejos is a Bayesian statistician and leads the Biomedical Data Science research group at the MRC Human Genetics Unit within the University of Edinburgh She is also a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute. Her research group focuses on the development of Bayesian statistical methodology that is motivated by the multiple sources of heterogeneity that are typically encountered in complex biomedical data: from technical noise to population structure and different data modalities. Catalina’s research group currently focuses on two main areas of application in the context of single-cell sequencing technologies and electronic health records.