The origins of Rachel Fewster’s tenure in The Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland can be traced back to the 1997 meeting of the Australasian Region of the International Biometrics Society, held at Paradise Cove in South Australia. It was there that some newly converted Bayesians (Renate Meyer and Russell Millar) met a keen young PhD student from the University of St Andrews. She had an intense enthusiasm for statistics, ecology and the kind of outdoors opportunities available down-under.A bit of snooping around upon their return to Auckland showed that this was no ordinary PhD student. By 1999 a post-doc had been offered and accepted, and the rest as they say, is history. Indeed, history was made in August of this year when Rachel was promoted to full Professor, the first woman to have achieved this milestone since the establishment of the department in the early 1990s. Rachel has made outstanding contributions in research, statistical education and has had a major impact on the use and promotion of statistics in New Zealand and internationally. In 2018, she received the NZSA Campbell Award. Rachel has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers during her 20-year career, including 14 papers in the major statistical journals Biometrics, Biometrika, Statistical Science, and J. Multivariate Analysis, numerous papers in high-ranking journals in ecology and genetics, and a total of 28 publications in journals ranked A*/A. She has led three Marsden grants and one MBIE grant, all comprising novel statistical research with direct relevance to conservation in NZ, totalling $1.5M. She has been a keynote speaker at seven international conferences in the last 7 years. She has also supervised about 15 PhD students, both in statistics and biology, who have gone on to achieve prestigious awards and employment, including two Rutherford Discovery Fellowships, one Prime Minister’s Emerging Scientist award, 11 current academic appointments worldwide, and numerous conference prizes. For biology PhDs in particular, the injection of novel statistical content has not only given the students a competitive edge in gaining awards and employment, but has also created firm interdisciplinary links and raised the profile of statistics among researchers in biological sciences.

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雷切尔·费斯特：2018 年 NZSA 坎贝尔奖获得者

雷切尔·费斯特在奥克兰大学统计系任职的起源可以追溯到 1997 年在南澳大利亚天堂湾举行的国际生物识别学会澳大拉西亚地区会议。正是在那里，一些新皈依的贝叶斯学派（雷纳特·迈耶和罗素·米勒）遇到了圣安德鲁斯大学的一位热心的年轻博士生。她对统计学、生态学和地下可用的户外机会有着强烈的热情。他们回到奥克兰后四处窥探，这表明这不是普通的博士生。到 1999 年，已经提供并接受了一名博士后，其余的正如他们所说的那样，已经成为历史。事实上，历史是在今年 8 月 Rachel 晋升为正教授时创造的，自该部门于 1990 年代初成立以来，第一位实现这一里程碑的女性。Rachel 在研究、统计教育方面做出了杰出贡献，并对新西兰和国际上统计的使用和推广产生了重大影响。2018 年，她获得了 NZSA Campbell 奖。Rachel 在其 20 年的职业生涯中发表了 50 多篇同行评审论文，其中在主要统计期刊 Biometrics、Biometrika、Statistical Science 和 J. Multivariate Analysis 上发表了 14 篇论文，在生态学和遗传学高级期刊上发表了多篇论文，以及在A*/A的期刊上共发表论文28篇。她领导了三项马斯登拨款和一项 MBIE 拨款，全部包括与新西兰保护直接相关的新颖统计研究，总计 150 万美元。在过去的 7 年里，她在七次国际会议上担任主讲人。她还指导了大约 15 名统计学和生物学博士生，他们继续获得着名的奖项和就业，包括两项卢瑟福发现奖学金、一项总理新兴科学家奖、11 项当前的全球学术任命以及众多会议奖项。特别是对于生物学博士来说，新的统计内容的注入不仅使学生在获得奖项和就业方面具有竞争优势，而且还建立了牢固的跨学科联系，提高了统计学在生物科学研究人员中的知名度。他们继续获得着名的奖项和就业，包括两项卢瑟福发现奖学金、一项总理新兴科学家奖、11 项当前的全球学术任命以及众多会议奖项。特别是对于生物学博士来说，新的统计内容的注入不仅使学生在获得奖项和就业方面具有竞争优势，而且还建立了牢固的跨学科联系，提高了统计学在生物科学研究人员中的知名度。他们继续获得着名的奖项和就业，包括两项卢瑟福发现奖学金、一项总理新兴科学家奖、11 项当前的全球学术任命以及众多会议奖项。特别是对于生物学博士来说，新的统计内容的注入不仅使学生在获得奖项和就业方面具有竞争优势，而且还建立了牢固的跨学科联系，提高了统计学在生物科学研究人员中的知名度。