Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes is a Spanish statistician and academic administrator, the president of St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
[3] Fuentes earned two bachelor's degrees in 1993 from the University of Valladolid, one in music and piano, and a second in mathematics and statistics.
[4] Her dissertation, supervised by Michael L. Stein, was Prediction of Random Fields and Modeling Spatialtemporal Satellite Data.
[5] After visiting positions at the Joint Research Center of the European Union in Italy, AT&T Labs, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, she joined the North Carolina State University (NCSU) faculty in 1998.
[4] At NCSU she became the James M. Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Department of Statistics before moving to Virginia Commonwealth University as Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences in 2016.