Amira Elayouty

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University

Amira ELAYOUTY (Dr.) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. She has been awarded her Ph.D. degree in Statistics in 2017 from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; and currently is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow within the same school. Elayouty is also working as an Adjunct Faculty member at the School of Business in the American University in Cairo. Her teaching interests include inferential statistics and statistical modelling. Her research interests include spatio-temporal models, generalised additive non-parametric regression models and functional data analysis with a particular focus on high-frequency and big environmental and socio-economic data and statistics. She is interested in developing and using advanced statistical methods to allow for a better understanding of the rapid environmental and socioeconomic changes and their impacts on the places, species, and society and to improve the risk and uncertainty assessment of these changes. Elayouty has been elected as a Global representative for the International Environmetrics Society (TIES) for the period 2021-2025 and is currently leading the new early-career researchers mentoring scheme committee for the society.