Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser (born 24 September 1965)[1] is a Swiss statistician who develops methods for statistical inference with applications to research fields ranging from social, economics (econometrics) to experimental sciences (biostatistics).
[1] She received in 1995 the Latsis Foundation International Prize for her dissertation, Robust Methods for Personal Income Distribution Models (supervised by Elvezio Ronchetti[2]).
After working for three years as a lecturer at the London School of Economics (department of statistics), she returned to the University of Geneva in 1997, in the faculty of psychology and educational sciences.
[4] Within the University of Geneva, Victoria-Feser has led the creation of institutes and programs for research and teaching in statistical sciences.
With Stephane Heritier, Eva Cantoni and Samuel Copt, Victoria-Feser is an author of the book Robust Methods in Biostatistics (Wiley, 2009).