Loukia MeligkotsidouView profile
Associate Professor
Loukia Meligkotsidou is an Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds a BSc in Statistics from Athens University of Economics and Business (2002) and a PhD in Statistics from Lancaster University (2005), focusing on filtering methods for population genetics, phylogenetics, and mixture models. Her research interests span Bayesian inference, computational statistics, hidden Markov models, biostatistics, and econometrics. She teaches undergraduate courses on Bayesian Inference and postgraduate courses on Time Series analysis. Her work emphasizes methodological advancements in statistical modeling, particularly in longitudinal data analysis, competing risks, and model uncertainty. Recent publications address issues like shared parameter models for longitudinal data, Bayesian unit root testing, and quantile regression approaches in financial forecasting. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and active in professional societies like ISBA and IMS. Her research integrates theoretical contributions with applied problems in economics, finance, and biology. Notable contributions include frameworks for handling informative dropout mechanisms and developing efficient Bayesian computational methods for complex models. Her work bridges statistical methodology and real-world applications, particularly in econometrics and biostatistics.
