Prof Claire Gormley conducts statistical research and teach statistics to undergraduate and graduate students. She is the UCD Director of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training (CRT) in Foundations of Data Science (www.data-science.ie), with Prof. James Gleeson (Director, University of Limerick) and Prof. David Malone (Director, Maynooth University). This CRT will train over 120 Ph.D. students from 2019 to 2026 in the foundations of data science. She is a Principal Investigator in the VistaMilk Research Centre for Precision Pasture-based Dairying and a Funded Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Her research develops novel statistical methods, largely based on latent variable models, for the analysis of high dimensional data, often of mixed type. The methods solve applied problems across a range of disciplines, including epigenetics, metabolomics, genomics, social science, sports science and political science. She is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Applied Statistics. She is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2023-2025, https://bayesian.org). She was awarded Chartered Statistician (CStat) status by the Royal Statistical Society and was an elected member of Council of the Royal Statistical Society 2017-2020.