Alison Etheridge

Alison Mary Etheridge (born 1964) FRS is Professor of Probability at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Etheridge was educated at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a DPhil in 1989 for research supervised by David Albert Edwards.

Following her PhD, Etheridge held research fellowships in Oxford and Cambridge and positions at the University of California, Berkeley, The University of Edinburgh and Queen Mary University of London before returning to Oxford in 1997.

Over the course of her career, her interests have ranged from abstract mathematical problems to concrete applications as reflected in her four books which range from a research monograph on mathematical objects called superprocesses to an exploration (co-authored with Mark H. A. Davis) of the percolation of ideas from the groundbreaking thesis of Louis Bachelier in 1900 to modern mathematical finance.

Much of her recent research is concerned with mathematical models of population genetics, where she has been particularly involved in efforts to understand the effects of spatial structure of populations on their patterns of genetic variation.

Etheridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads:

Etheridge became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematial Statistics in 2016. Her citation reads:

On August 1, 2017 she begins a one-year term as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, where she is currently president-elect.