Dr Amy Wilson is Lecturer in Industrial Mathematics with a background in interdisciplinary applied statistics for problems in industry and government. Amy is the Chair of the Royal Statistical Society Statistics and the Law Section. Her PhD was on statistical modelling of traces of cocaine on banknotes – this work was shown to have a widespread impact, being routinely used in forensic laboratories worldwide for casework and recommended in international guidelines for forensic scientists. Amy has also worked across a wide range of areas relating to sustainability, including energy systems and flood modelling.Her research involves the use of statistical methods and modelling to aid decision-making. For example, graphical techniques (including Bayesian networks and chain event graphs) for decision-making in forensic science, legal cases, and energy policy. Current AI projectsCode, Calculate, Change – How Statistics Fuels AI’s Real-World Impact | Royal Statistical SocietyStatistics and the law: Probabilistic modelling of forensic evidence | The Alan Turing InstituteAwards and fellowships2022 Edinburgh Mathematical Society Impact Prize (jointly awarded with Chris Dent and Stan Zachary) for work on capacity adequacy studies with National Grid Get in touchPlease visit Amy's LinkedIn profile Recent publications using AI techniques (open access)Chain event graphs for assessing activity-level propositions in forensic science in relation to drug traces on banknotes | Law, Probability and Risk, 2024 This article was published on 2025-09-04
