Sofia Villar

Contact

Sofia Villar – sofia.villar@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

Research Interests

My research aims to improve clinical trial design through the development of innovative methods that lie in the intersection between optimisation, machine learning and statistics. These methods may result in efficiency gains (i.e. smaller or faster trials) but face several practical barriers (e.g. a high computational cost) to be widely adopted. These innovations include patient-centric trials – i.e. those having an explicit goal of assigning more trial participants to superior treatments (e.g. an efficacious vaccine).

Potential PhD Projects

I am open to developing a PhD project around any of the areas I work on currently.

How to apply

For details of the MRC BSU application process please see How to apply

To be considered for funding applications need to be submitted to the University of Cambridge application system by 23:59 (GMT) on January 5th 2023