Heather J. Cordell MSc, DPhil

Heather Cordell is a Professor of Statistical Genetics at the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University, UK. Heather obtained a BA in Mathematics in 1990 from Cambridge University, followed by an MSc in Applied Statistics and DPhil (Ph.D.) in Mathematical Genetics from Oxford University. She then spent three postdoctoral years at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. After returning to the UK, Heather held a Wellcome Trust/JDRF Career Development Fellowship, followed by a Wellcome Senior Fellowship, at the Department of Medical Genetics at Cambridge University. In 2006 Heather moved to Newcastle University to take up the newly-established Chair of Statistical Genetics.