Veronica Bowman

Veronica Elizabeth (Ronni) Bowman OBE FIMA FRSS is a British military statistician specialising in Bayesian inference and uncertainty, and their applications in knowledge management for chemical, biological and radiological threats.^[1] She is a professor and data science fellow at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory,^[2][3] and an associate member of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute at the University of Southampton.^[4]

Education

Bowman was a mathematics student at the University of Southampton, where she earned a BSc with first class honours before completing a doctorate in statistical modelling.^[5]

Recognition

Bowman is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society^[2] and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.^[5]

Bowman was the 2021 winner of the Innovation and Creativity Award at the Women in Defence UK Awards.^[6][7] In the 2022 New Year Honours, Bowman was named as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for her work developing CrystalCast, a system for uncertainty analysis and Bayesian model combination that was applied to combine academic and government epidemiological predictions in the COVID-19 pandemic in order to provide an estimate for the basic reproduction number of the disease.^[3][1]