Renate Meyer is a New Zealand statistician, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in gravitational wave analysis.
[1] She completed a PhD titled Invariante Präordnungen und algorithmische Aspekte bei Matrix-Approximationsproblemen in multivariaten statistischen Verfahren (Invariant preorders and algorithmic aspects of matrix approximation problems in multivariate statistical methods) at the RWTH Aachen University in 1993.
[1][3] Meyer is a pioneer in gravitational wave analysis, having got interested in the field through collaborator Nelson Christensen, who had been a doctoral student of Rainer Weiss.
[1] She is part of a New Zealand team, the NZ Astrostatistics and General Relativity Group, which is a formal working group of the LISA Consortium to observe gravitational waves in space.
[1] Meyer was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship in 2021 to work with LIGO and LISA researchers to "understand the sources of noise in gravitational wave detection and to mitigate against them to purify the desired wave signal".