Professor Claire Gormley is a co-director of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science. Claire is also a Funded Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and in the VistaMilk Centre for Precision Pasture-based Dairy. Her research develops novel statistical methods, largely based on latent variable models, for the analysis of high dimensional data, often of mixed type. The methods solve applied problems across a range of disciplines, including epigenetics, metabolomics, genomics, social science, sports science, and political science. Claire is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Applied Statistics. She was awarded Chartered Statistician (CStat) status by the Royal Statistical Society and is an elected member of the Council of the Royal Statistical Society.