Heather Battey

Heather Battey is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London's Faculty of Natural Sciences. Her work bridges foundational statistical theory with practical scientific applications, focusing on parametrization effects, sparsity, and high-dimensional inference.

Education

• PhD, University of Cambridge (2008-2011)

Research Interests

Battey's research examines how model structure and parametrization influence inferential procedures, particularly in high-dimensional settings. She investigates the equivalence between sparsity and reparametrization, and challenges traditional Fisherian statistical abstractions through modern practices.

Her publications reveal a pattern of innovation in high-dimensional regression, covariance matrix analysis, and statistical methodology for complex data. Collaborations span disciplines including machine learning, economics, and biomedical research.

Scientific Awards

• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2023)
• EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship (2020-2026)
• EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2017-2020)

Advising and Grants

Battey supervises PhD students Charlotte Edgar, Jakub Rybak, and Rebecca Lewis, with informal guidance to Henrique Hoeltgebaum. Over 15 pre-doctoral researchers have been mentored in topics ranging from support vector machines to spatial point processes.

Current funding includes an EPSRC grant for theoretical foundations of inference with nuisance parameters and prior support for covariance matrix inference.