Ana María Justel Eusebio is a Spanish statistician and Antarctic scientist specializing in

nonparametric statistics Nonparametric statistics is a type of statistical analysis that makes minimal assumptions about the underlying distribution of the data being studied. Often these models are infinite-dimensional, rather than finite dimensional, as in parametric s ...

, including work on multivariate versions of the

Kolmogorov–Smirnov test In statistics, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test (also K–S test or KS test) is a nonparametric statistics, nonparametric test of the equality of continuous (or discontinuous, see #Discrete and mixed null distribution, Section 2.2), one-dimensional ...

and on

mixture model In statistics, a mixture model is a probabilistic model for representing the presence of subpopulations within an overall population, without requiring that an observed data set should identify the sub-population to which an individual observati ...

s, and applications to the

limnology Limnology ( ; ) is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems. It includes aspects of the biological, chemical, physical, and geological characteristics of fresh and saline, natural and man-made bodies of water. This includes the study of lakes, ...

and

meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

. She is a professor of statistics at the

Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid (; UAM), commonly known as la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 by royal decree. UAM is widely respected as one of the most prestigious univ ...

Education and career

Justel earned a

licenciate A licentiate (abbreviated Lic.) is an academic degree present in many countries, representing different educational levels. The Licentiate (Pontifical Degree) is a post graduate degree when issued by pontifical universities and other universitie ...

in mathematics from the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

in 1990, and earned a doctorate in statistics and econometrics from

Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid () (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad range of master's and bachelor's degree p ...

in 1995, with the dissertation ''Algoritmos adaptativos de Gibbs Sampling para la identificación de heterogeneidad en regresión y series temporales''. After postdoctoral research at the

Université catholique de Louvain UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally establishe ...

, she joined the staff at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1996; her position there was made permanent in 2000.

Recognition

Justel won the inaugural Margarita Salas Prize of the Talent Woman initiative, in 2019.

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Justel, Ana Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Spanish statisticians Spanish women statisticians Complutense University of Madrid alumni Charles III University of Madrid alumni Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Madrid