Areas of Expertise

Modeling in space and time
Bayesian modeling and inference
Computational statistics
Environmental and ecological sciences and sustainability

Education

PhD in Applied Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Göttingen, Germany (2021)
MS in Economics with specialization in Econometrics and Statistics, University of Bonn, Germany (2017)
BS in Economics, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal (2015)

Before joining the Department of Statistics in 2024, Isa was a lecturer in statistics and data analytics at the University of Glasgow. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Statistics and Spatial Data Science at the University of Göttingen in Germany.

Isa holds a degree in Applied Statistics, and her research focuses on spatial confounding, non-stationarity, and computational statistics. She works with environmental applications, such as forestry.