Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (born 21 May 1959) is an Austrian statistician and professor of applied statistics and econometrics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
After attaining her doctorate in engineering mathematics from the TU Wien she held numerous academic positions, including professor of statistics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
In her research, Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter inter alia explores ideas relating to Bayesian econometrics, such as efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and Bayesian analysis of finite mixture models.
In 2014, she co-developed a Bayesian approach to exploratory factor analysis with James Heckman.
[3] She is a quadruple winner of the WU Best Paper Award[4] and recipient of the DeGroot Prize[5] bestowed by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for her monograph on Markov switching models.