Gesine Reinert is a German statistician who is University Professor in Statistics at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

. She is a Fellow of

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, a Fellow of the

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, 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 ...

. Her research concerns the

probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus 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 expre ...

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 typ ...

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 ...

Education

Reinert earned a diploma in mathematics from the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen (, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta), is a Public university, public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1734 ...

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

University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, ) is a public university, public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of the ...

, 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 The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

from 1994 to 1996 and the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

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

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

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 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 Mathematical statisticians