Lucinda Newbury

Lucie is a postdoctoral researcher in Biostatistics and a current member of CHICAS. She joined CHICAS in February 2022 as a new and meaningful research direction to suit her skill set following the completion of her PhD work on statistical modelling for wireless communication systems. She completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou as part of Lancaster's School of Computing and Communications, before winning the prestigious 'EPSRC Doctoral Prize' and spending a year extending her postdoctoral work under the supervision of Dr. Natasha Blitvic as a member of Lancaster's Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 2021-22.

Her research interests are in the development of new computational methods applying spatio-temporal statistical models to map the spread of tropical diseases.