Elena Castilla’s webpage

Assistant Professor  in Mathematics and Statistics 

About me

I am currently Assistant Professor  at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Rey Juan Carlos University. I got my  Ph.D, M.Sc. and Bachelor Degree in Mathematics and Statistics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. I was awarded with Ramiro Melendreras Award (SEIO, 2021) and with Vicent Caselles Award (RSME & Fundación BBVA 2022).  I also received the third price of Margarita Salas' Award, Basic Sciences category (Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2022) and the Extraordinary PhD Award (UCM, 2023).

I am a co-organizer of the seminars in the Applied Mathematics area at URJC, please click here for more information.

You can find more about my academic background here

My research interests include information theory, categorical data analysis, composite likelihood, logistic regression models, reliability analysis and robust statistics.