Dr Silvia Liverani
Reader in Statistics
Head of the Centre in Data Science, Statistics and Probability

Office MB321
School of Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom

s.liverani@qmul.ac.uk

I am a statistician working on methodological as well as applied projects. On this webpage you can find out more on my research, my list of publications, PhD projects on offer. Current PhD students: Kabiru Abubakari, Rowan Morris and Huda Alsulami.

News

June 2025 – I will be running several “Statistics and Data Science Clinics” for QMUL academics, PDRAs and PhD students from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science who need help with the analysis of their data. Hopefully this will lead to some new interdisciplinary collaborations! Please get in touch with me if you would like more details.

May 2025 – We have been awarded £1,000 from the London Mathematical Society to organise an LGBTQ+ Mathematics Open Day for year 11 and year 12 pupils. It will take place later in the year and we will be sharing details soon!

February 2025 – I gave a seminar talk at the University of Bath.

May 2023 – I participated as Principal Investigator in a Data Study Group at the Turing Institute, working with the National Biodiversity Network Trust.

September 2022 – I gave a plenary talk at the Statistics 50th Anniversary Celebration in Warwick. 

September 2021 – I am a member of the Research Awards Panel of Coeliacs UK.

January 2020 – A paper that I coauthored has been picked up by several news outlets: phys.org.

March 2019 – I hosted the 2019 Women in Mathematics day at Queen Mary University of London.

January 2019 – A paper that I coauthored on the higher risks of depression and anxiety for adults with cerebral palsy has been picked up by several news outlets, including The Conversation

July 2018 – I will give a talk at the International Biometric Conference

December 17th 2017 – I will give an invited talk at ERCIM 2017 in London.

November 30th 2017 – Deadline for position of Postdoctoral Research Assistant at QMUL

June 9th 2017 – We are organising a workshop on Modern Statistical Methods for Environment and Health at Brunel University.

January 2017 – I will give an invited talk at SMPGD 2017: Statistical Methods for Postgenomic Data at Imperial College London.