Meet the Scientists: Dr Alice Richardson

Dr Alice Richardson is a biostatistician at the Australian National University’s National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health in Canberra, Australia. Dr Richardson is passionate about applying statistical methods to data that can improve people’s health and lives. Her work is being used in a leading Australian clinic to diagnose severity and identify subgroups. One of Dr Richardson’s published papers also supports earlier findings of a potential biomarker, patented in Australia. Dr Richardson taught undergraduate statistics for two decades at the University of Canberra, and collaborated on a variety of quantitative research projects. In 2016 she took up the role of biostatistician at the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health at the ANU. Her research interests are in linear models; robust statistics; statistical properties of data mining methods; statistical methods applied to large data sets in biomedical sciences; and statistics education. Dr Richardson recently published ‘Weighting of orthostatic intolerance time measurements with standing difficulty score stratifies ME/CFS symptom severity and analyte detection‘ in the Journal of Translational Medicine, April 2018. ME Australia wrote about it in ‘How much can people with ME stand?‘.