MINERVA RESEARCH FOUNDATION

The Minerva Research Foundation is a charitable trust that was founded in 1993 to promote research in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and to encourage the participation of women in these disciplines. The policy of the foundation is to support specific selected areas of study with the hope of making a meaningful contribution to these areas. The plan of the foundation is to sponsor conferences and seminars on certain topics in probability and statistics and to offer grants to institutions and individuals who are conducting research in these topics.

Department of Statistics, Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, stands among America’s highest-ranked, most diverse public research universities. The oldest, largest, and top-ranked public university in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, it is an academic, health, and research powerhouse and a university of opportunity.

Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science section, KU Leuven

The University of Leuven, officially known as KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), is Belgium’s largest and oldest university, founded in 1425. It is one of Europe’s leading research institutions and consistently ranks among the top universities worldwide. The Section of Statistics and Data Science is part of the Mathematics Department. Its research group ROBUST@Leuven (with professors Mia Hubert, Stefan Van Aelst, Peter Rousseeuw, Tim Verdonck and Jakob Raymaekers) mainly focuses on robust statistics and anomaly detection.