Jennifer Wadsworth

Professor Jennifer Wadsworth is a Professor in Statistics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Lancaster University. Her research spans extreme value theory, copulas, spatial statistics, and environmental statistics, focusing on likelihood-based and nonparametric inference methods.

• Projects include Exploring and exploiting new representations for multivariate extremes (2023-2026) and STORi: Multivariate Extremes for Nuclear Regulation (2019-2023).
• Current PhD supervision interests: multivariate and spatial extremes, aiming to develop realistic models by relaxing assumptions.
• Research groups: Extreme Value Theory, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training.

Her recent work, such as Modeling of spatial extremes in environmental data science (2025), highlights the need to move beyond max-stable processes for more accurate spatial extreme modeling. She supervises PhD students including Ryan Campbell, Kristina Grolmusova, and Lydia Kakampakou at Lancaster University.