Marloes Maathuis: Van Dantzig Award

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Marloes Maathuis has been awarded the 2020 Van Dantzig Award. This prize is considered the highest Dutch award in statistics and operations research and is awarded once every five years.

by Monika Krichel
Marloes Maathuis

Marloes Maathuis from the Seminar for Statistics at ETH Zurich has been awarded the prestigious Van Dantzig Award, together with Daniel Dadush (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, CWI). The awards were announced at the annual meeting of the external pageNetherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVSOR), which took place on 12 March 2020.

The Van Dantzig Award is named after the mathematician external pageDavid van Dantzig, founder of statistics and operations research in the Netherlands. It is awarded every five years by the VVSOR to a scientist not older than 40 who contributed significantly to developments in statistics and operations research.

Marloes Maathuis' research focuses on causal inference, graphical models, high-dimensional statistics, and interdisciplinary applications at the interface between biology, epidemiology and statistics. Her contributions to causal inference are considered pioneering and have opened up fundamental new possibilities in this field. The jury especially highlighted her work on computational and theoretical aspects of high-dimensional causal structure learning.

 

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