Profile
Nicole has been Reader in Statistics at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh since 2020. Her research is mainly on interdisciplinary projects and statistical methodology suited for environmental monitoring data and health statistics. Some examples include spatio-temporal modelling of forest health data, modelling physical activity profiles for predicting cardio-metabolic symptoms, methodology for spatial confounding, model selection uncertainty and using remote sensing data for mapping of forest biomass.
Nicole received her PhD in Statistics from the University of St Andrews in 2000. After that she held post-doc, Lectureship and Senior Lectureship positions at the University of Freiburg (Germany), the University of Glasgow and the University of Bath.