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Vounatsou, Penelope

1966

Born in 1966 in Mytilini, Greece, Penelope Vounatsou graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University of Ioannina in 1987. Subsequently, she studied environmental sciences at the Aegean University (GR), statistics at the University of Sheffield (UK) and obtained a PhD in statistics from Imperial College London. After joining the Swiss TPH as a postdoctoral research fellow in 1994, she started a successful career at the institute and made Basel her hometown.