Alison Etheridge

education = Smestow Comprehensive School thesis_title = Asymptotic Behaviour of Some Measure-Valued Diffusions thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329943 thesis_year = 1989 doctoral_advisor = David Albert Edwards David Crighton Medal (2023) website = footnotes = spouse = University of Oxford. Etheridge is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and president of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences.

Education Etheridge was educated at Smestow School.

Career and research Following her PhD, Etheridge held research fellowships in Oxford and Cambridge and positions at the University of California, Berkeley, The University of Edinburgh, and Queen Mary University of London before returning to Oxford in 1997.

She was head of the University of Oxford's Department of Statistics, in a three-year post that ran until August 2022. She chairs the Mathematical Sciences sub-panel of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

Awards and honours Etheridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. In 2017, she was elected as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics for a one-year term. She was awarded the Senior Anne Bennett Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2017, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to science. The University of Edinburgh awarded her an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 2018/19. She has served on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)'s Strategic Advisory Network and its Mathematical Sciences Strategic Advisory Team. She was appointed to the Council of the EPSRC in 2018.

She is a Trustee of the Royal Society and a member of its governing council. In September 2021 she became the chair of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences. In 2024 she was elected the first president of the new UK Academy for the Mathematical Sciences.

In 2023 she was elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.