UCL professor recognised as ’next-gen’ scientific leader

A UCL professor has won a fellowship to develop her potential as one of the next generation of world-leading scientists. Professor Sofia Olhede (UCL Statistical Science) has been awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Leadership Fellowship. The fellowships, which provide up to five years of funding, are a direct investment in Britain's most talented researchers. Professor Olhede is developing mathematical theories and techniques to analyse evolving processes, and applying these ideas to problems in neuroscience, ecology and the environment. She said: "A time series is a set of observations of a process over time, such as the location of a drifting buoy recorded every hour. Traditionally it is assumed that the mechanism that generates observations does not change over the time course of observation, this assumption enabling analysis. "Unfortunately, many important phenomena are evolving over time and quantifying this evolution is necessary to our understanding.