Background and Qualifications

Mario Cortina Borja has been at the UCL Institute of ChildHealth since October 2000; he was appointed Professor of Biostatistics in thePopulation, Policy and Practice Programme in 2015. Mario has a BSc in ActuarialScience and an MSc in Statistics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma deMéxico, and a PhD in Statistics from the School of Mathematical Sciences at theUniversity of Bath for a thesis entitled Graph-theoretic nonparametricmultivariate procedures. 

Before coming to UCL Mario was a statistician at theInstituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas at the National AutonomousUniversity of Mexico, a research officer in applied mathematics at the Schoolof Chemical Engineering in the University of Bath, a lecturer, then seniorlecturer, in Statistics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and,for five years, consulting and teaching officer in the Department ofStatistics, University of Oxford.

Metrics

Mario’s h-index is 56 from >12500 citations(google scholar, October 2021), and his Erdös number is 4. He has published over320 peer-reviewed papers, contributions to discussions, letters, and bookreviews in 130 different periodical publications and contributes topeer-reviewing for many academic journals, notably Archives of Disease inChildhood, The Lancet, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Statisticsin Medicine, Statistica Neerlandica, and Biostatistics