Montserrat Fuentes

Montserrat Fuentes joined the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences in the late fall of 2021 and is the president at St. Edwards University. Prior to her appointment as president, she served as the executive vice president and provost at the University of Iowa, and prior to that, as dean of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research interests include big data, brain imaging analysis, statistics for spatial data, uncertainty analysis, computer models, interdisciplinary applications in neurosciences, environmental and health sciences. Her work addresses scientific and societal problems in brain imaging, weather forecasting, climate change, air pollution and human health effects from pollution, as well as studies of pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes for both the mother and child.