Dr Silvia Liverani is a Reader in Statistics and Head of the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science at Queen Mary University of London's School of Mathematical Sciences. Her research focuses on Bayesian methods, clustering, and spatio-temporal modeling with applications in epidemiology, environmental health, and genetics. She collaborates with institutions like the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, and has advised three PhD students. She leads interdisciplinary projects including a £1,000 LMS-funded LGBTQ+ Mathematics Open Day initiative and hosts international seminars. Research interests include Dirichlet process mixtures, causal methods, and health data modeling. Notable publications (2020–2025) address causal adversarial analysis, urban health inequalities, and Bayesian graph structures. Current projects involve biodiversity modeling using spatial statistics and misaligned data techniques. She has been cited in media outlets like phys.org and The Conversation for studies on cerebral palsy health risks and biodiversity loss. Her academic leadership includes roles in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and collaborations with charities/industry. Recent grants include a Turing Institute Data Study Group project on biodiversity prioritization. Supervised PhD topics include Bayesian epidemiological modeling and biodiversity data analysis.










