Rose Baker
NationalityBritish
TitleProfessor emeritus
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplinePhysics
Mathematics
Statistics
Sub-disciplineApplied statistics
InstitutionsSalford Business School
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Rose Dawn Baker is a British physicist, mathematician, and statistician. She is a professor emeritus of applied statistics in the Salford Business School at the University of Salford.[1]

Education and career

Baker read physics at the University of Cambridge, earned a master's degree there in 1968, and completed her Ph.D. in 1972.[1] Her dissertation concerned bubble chambers.[2]

After a year in India as a lecturer in physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, she returned to England as a researcher at the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire, where she worked from 1973 to 1977.[2]

At that time, as she writes, "funds began drying up in big physics",[2] so she moved to the University of Salford, where she worked in computing services from 1977 to 1990. In 1990, she became a lecturer in the department of mathematics at Salford, and in 1998 she moved to statistics as a reader. She was given a personal chair in 2001,[1] and retired in 2013.[3]

Recognition

Baker is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.[1] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[4] She has won the Catherine Richards Prize of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications twice, in 2002 for a paper on paradoxes in probability theory and in 2010 for her work providing a formula for the health effects of obesity, as a function of body mass index.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Professor Rose Baker, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, Salford Business School, retrieved 23 November 2017
  2. 1 2 3 Rose Dawn Baker, retrieved 23 November 2017
  3. ↑ "Report of professorial promotions and appointments advisory group", Minutes of the meeting held on 11 December 2013 (PDF), University of Salford Senate, 11 December 2013, p. 7
  4. ↑ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 23 November 2017
  5. ↑ Catherine Richards Prize, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, retrieved 23 November 2017
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