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Summary of Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Born in Valencia, Spain. Married, one daughter.
Ph. D. (Mathematics) at University of Valencia (1974).
Ph. D. (Statistics) at University College London (1976).
Professor of Statistics at the University of Valencia, Spain.
NRP A0-1EC-3019. SSN 570.952075.

Honors

Spanish National Graduation Award (Mathematics); Spanish National Doctorate Award (Mathematics); British Council Research Fellowship; Yale University Postdoctoral Fellowship; Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Académico Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Ciencias de Madrid; Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society; Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians; Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute; Founder co-President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis 1992-1994; Listed in Who is Who in the World (1984-).

Research Interests

The nature and scope of Bayesian Statistics; The relationship between information theory and statistics; the foundations and the derivation of nonsubjective, reference priors; the foundations of decision theory; Bayesian hypothesis testing and model criticism; point and region intrinsic estimation; probabilistic classification; applications of Bayesian Statistics and decision theory to medical problems (automatic diagnosis), political analysis (election forecasting, sample surveys), and industrial problems (quality assurance).

UNESCO specialization codes: 1209.08; 1209.13; 2404.01

Professional Service

Lecturer (Universitat de València, 1972-1977); Professor of Biostatistics (Universitat de València, 1978-1982); Professor of Statistics (Universitat de València, 1983-);
Advisor on Statistics and Decision Theory to the President of the State of Valencia. (1989-1995); General Director of Decision Analysis, Government of the State of Valencia (1991-1993).
Founding Editor of Test (1992-1997); Associate Editor of Estadística Española (1986-), the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B) (1989-1993), the Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society (2002-); The Statistician (1987-1997), Questio (1983--2002); Contributing Editor of the Current Index of Statistics (1984-) and Statistics Theory and Methods Abstracts (1996-2003). Consultant for the Spanish Scientific and Technological Commission (Madrid), the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Security Agency (USA), the Research Council of Canada, the Fondo Nacional de Investigaciòn Cientìfica (Chile), the Foundation for Research and Development (South Africa), the Czech Academy of Sciences , the Academy of Finland .
Organizer and Programme Committee Member of the Valencia International Meetings on Bayesian Statistics, established world forums on Bayesian Methods, held every four years in Spain since 1979. The 9th Meeting is scheduled for early June 2010.
Supervisor of 17 completed Ph.D. Thesis.
Short visits and/or courses given at (chronological order of first visit) Scuola Matemática Interuniversitaria (Cortona, Italia), UNAM (Mexico), Universidad Simón Bolivar (Caracas), Universidad Mohamed V (Rabat), Charles Darwin Research Foundation (Islas Galápagos), Purdue University, (West Lafayette), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Humboldt Universitat (Berlin), Institute for Desert Research (Sde Boquer), Warwick University, Stanford University, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Lima), CIENES (Santiago de Chile), ITAM (Mexico), Orange Free State (Bloemfontein), Universidad de la República (Montevideo), Université de Neuchatel, Universidad Nacional (Bogotá), University of Technology (Isfahan), Universidad Pontificia (Santiago de Chile), University of texas (Austin), Research Center Foulum (Aarhus), Universidad de La Habana, Università di Roma. University of Edinburgh, Duke University (Durham, University of Iceland (Reykjavik), MTPB (Male, Maldives) and Sociedad Boliviana de Estad’stica (Potosi)
Lectures given, among others (alphabetical order), at the universities of Berlin, Bloemfontein, Brighton, California at Berkeley, California at Riverside, Cambridge, Cape Town, Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Canterbury (New Zealand), Duke, Florence, Grenoble, George Washington, Edinburgh, Haifa, Harvard, Havana, Helsinki, Iceland, Lesotho, Louvain, London, MIT, Marburg, Menéndez-Pelayo at Santander, Milano, Minnesota, Montevideo, New South Wales, Oldenburg, Palermo, Paris, Pontificia de Chile, Prague, Pretoria, Purdue, Rome, Rutgers, Santiago (Chile), Santiago (Cuba), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Simon Fraser, St. Petersburg (Russia), Stanford, Stellenbosch, SUNY at Albany, Tel-Aviv, Tehran, Texas at Austin, Toulouse, UNAM (Mexico), Varna, Verona, Virginia at Blacksburg, Warsaw, Vienna, Warwick, Waterloo, Wisconsin, Wroclaw, Yaoundé and Yale.

José M. Bernardo. Departamento de Estadística e I. O., Universitat de València, Spain.