Jacqueline Meulman

Jacqueline Meulman (born 7 July 1954) is a Dutch statistician and professor emerita of Applied Statistics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University.

Born in The Hague, Meulman received her master's degree in mathematical psychology and data theory at Leiden University in 1981, and obtained her PhD in data theory in 1986 with the thesis entitled "A distance approach to nonlinear multivariate analysis" advised by Jan de Leeuw and John P. van de Geer.

Meulman has received several awards, including a five-year "fellowship" of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987, de J.C. Ruigrok prijs from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) in 1991, a Fulbright Award in 1992, and a PIONEER grant from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO) in 1994.

In 2001 she was elected President of the International Psychometric Society, and since 2002 she is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

[5] She is also one of the Founding Fathers and Co-Director of the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS).