Caitriona Ryan

Caitríona Ryan is the Associate Professor in Statistics and Trial Design in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and  the Wellcome-HRB Clinical Research Facility in St. James's hospital. Her qualifications include a BSc in mathematical science, MSc in statistics and  PhD in statistical clustering of network data at UCD. She furthered her career as a Research Associate in QUT, Brisbane, Australia where she developed an adaptive experimental design algorithm for biological process models. She returned to Ireland  in 2015 and has since worked as an academic statistician in Maynooth University with the SFI i-Form Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability.

Examples of Caitríona's work include supporting statistical planning and analysis of clinical trials, modelling multimorbidity networks and optimising the 3D printing of personalised medicines and medical implants at point of care.  She is also interested in longitudinal data analysis, anomaly detection and Bayesian inference.  She led the data team for  the latest wave of data collection in the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, managing the entire data lifecycle; from software testing and data wrangling to statistical analysis in collaboration with theme leads across many disciplines including Nursing and Midwifery, Dental Science and Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr Ryan is a member of the Irish Statistical Association