Filia (Ilia) Vonta

Filia (Ilia) Vonta did her undergraduate studies at the University of Patras, Greece (B.Sc. in Mathematics) and her graduate studies at the University of Maryland, USA (M.A. and PhD. in Mathematical Statistics). She worked previously at the University of Cyprus, Department of Mathematics from which she retired in 2009 from the position of Associate Professor. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences. She held short visiting positions at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and in many occasions in Université René Descartes - Paris V.

Her primary research interests include the areas of Survival Analysis, Biostatistics, Semiparametric Statistics, Nonparametric Statistics, Reliability and Divergence Measures. She has published more than 30 research papers in international journals while she has edited the publication of a scientific book by Springer and one by CRC Taylor and Francis. She has been Guest Editor in three international scientific journals and she is, among others, an Associate Editor of the journal Lifetime Data Analysis.