Laia Egea Cortés

Laia Egea Cortés is a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), supervised by Professors Daniel Fernández, Ivy Liu, and Richard Arnold.

Her research focuses on developing methodology for ordinal categorical data. She holds a degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2017) and a Master’s in Statistics and Operations Research from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Universitat de Barcelona (2019).

Laia worked as a statistician at the Catalan Institute of Oncology, within the Centre for Epidemiological Studies on Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS in Catalonia (CEEISCAT), from 2019 to 2022. She also worked at Sant Joan de Déu Foundation in the Epidemiology and Ageing Group from 2016 to 2019. She has also been an associate professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 2020 to 2022, and a tutor at Victoria University of Wellington since 2023.