Montserrat Fuentes
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University of Chicago (PhD)
Spatial Analysis
Montserrat Fuentes | |
|---|---|
| 24th President of St. Edward's University | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | George E. Martin |
| Personal details | |
| Education | University of Valladolid (BS, BS) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Prediction of Random Fields and Modeling Spatialtemporal Satellite Data. (1998) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics Spatial Analysis |
| Institutions | North Carolina State University Virginia Commonwealth University University of Iowa St. Edward's University |
Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes is a Spanish statistician and academic administrator, the president of St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. She is also the Coordinating Editor and Applications and Case Studies Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association.[1][2] In her research, she applies spatial analysis to atmospheric science.[3]
Fuentes earned two bachelor's degrees in 1993 from the University of Valladolid, one in music and piano, and a second in mathematics and statistics. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1998 from the University of Chicago.[4] Her dissertation, supervised by Michael L. Stein, was Prediction of Random Fields and Modeling Spatialtemporal Satellite Data.[5]
After visiting positions at the Joint Research Center of the European Union in Italy, AT&T Labs, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, she joined the North Carolina State University (NCSU) faculty in 1998.[4] At NCSU she became the James M. Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Department of Statistics before moving to Virginia Commonwealth University as Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences in 2016.[6] In 2019, she was named Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Iowa,[7] and in late 2020 she was named president of St. Edward's University.[8]
