A Little Bit About Me

I joined the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in September 2015 as the Thomas Bayes' Chair of Statistics. From August 2023 I will be the Director of the Bayes Centre, the University of Edinburgh's Innovation Hub for AI and Data Science.

I was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2017; a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018; and a fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics in 2022.

I am an active member of the wider statistical community with current positions of responsibility including Deputy Director of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology (NCSE) (2019-2023).

In 2017 I was one of the founding team that launched the (still running) Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Statistics: Unlocking the World of Data.

I am also a co-founder of the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Statistics, launched in 2017, uniting statisticians and quantitative researchers across the three colleges of the University. 

Contact Details

Prof. Ruth King FLSW, FRSE

School of Mathematics
University of Edinburgh
James Clerk Maxwell Building
The King's Buildings
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD

E-mail: Ruth.King@ed.ac.uk

Webpage designed by Laksh Thakur and Alex King.