Background and Qualifications

Mario Cortina Borja has been at the UCL Institute of Child Health since October 2000; he was appointed Professor of Biostatistics in the Population, Policy and Practice Programme in 2015. Mario has a BSc in Actuarial Science and an MSc in Statistics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a PhD in Statistics from the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath for a thesis entitled Graph-theoretic nonparametric multivariate procedures. 

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

Metrics

Mario’s h-index is 54 from >11500 citations (google scholar, August 2020), and his Erdös number is 4. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, contributions to discussions, letters, and book reviews in 120 different periodical publications and contributes to peer-reviewing for many academic journals, notably Archives of Disease in Childhood, The Lancet, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Statistics in Medicine, Statistica Neerlandica, and Biostatistics