Johanna G. Nešlehová | |
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Born | |
Education |
Charles University University of Hamburg University of Oldenburg |
Spouse | Christian Genest [1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
ETH Zürich McGill University Vienna University of Economics and Business |
Doctoral advisor | Dietmar Pfeifer |
Johanna G. Nešlehová (born July 26, 1977) [1] is a Czech mathematical statistician who works in Canada at McGill University as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics. [2] Her research interests include copulas, extreme value theory, multivariate statistics, and operational risk. [2] [3]
Nešlehová is originally from Prague, the daughter of painter Pavel Nešleha and art historian Mahulena Nešlehová . [3] She studied at the Charles University, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Oldenburg, earning a degree (vordiplom) from University of Hamburg in 1999, a master's degree (diplom) from the University of Hamburg in 2000, and a doctorate from the University of Oldenburg in 2004. [2] Her dissertation, Dependence of Non-continuous Random Variables, was supervised by Dietmar Pfeifer . [4]
After working as a postdoctoral researcher and Heinz Hopf Lecturer at ETH Zürich, she joined the McGill University faculty in 2009. [3] Since October 2022 she is also a professor at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. [5]
With Erhard Cramer, Nešlehová is the author of a German-language undergraduate textbook in introductory mathematics, Vorkurs Mathematik: Arbeitsbuch zum Studienbeginn in Bachelor-Studiengängen (Springer, 2005; 7th ed., 2018). [3] [6]
Nešlehová was named as an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2011. [2] In 2020 she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [2] [7]
She was the 2019 winner of the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics "for fundamental contributions to multivariate statistics, and in particular stochastic dependence modeling and extreme-value theory, and for her efforts to promote the sound application of statistics in risk management". [3]
In 2023, Nešlehová was the second statistician (after Nancy Reid in 1995) to receive the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society. [2] [8]
Nešlehová is married to statistician Christian Genest. [1]