2027–2031
ISI Council Member
Elected Council Member of the International Statistical Institute.
Statistician · Academic
Mauricio Castro
Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My work develops flexible statistical models for complex longitudinal, survival, spatial, spatiotemporal, and censored data.
Bayesian statisticsLongitudinal & survival modelsSpatial statisticsHeavy-tailed distributions
Since 2025
ANID Chile
Director of the Technical Monitoring Group for Grants in Mathematics.
Since 2019
CNA Chile
Member of the Mathematics and Statistics Comitte.
Research themes
Methodological research motivated by difficult real-world problems in medicine, public health, environmental science, and complex systems.
Bayesian statistics
Hierarchical modeling, robust inference, diagnostics, and computational methods.
Longitudinal & survival data
Censoring, missingness, joint models, nonlinear mixed-effects models, and heavy tails.
Spatial & spatiotemporal statistics
Graph-based priors, network uncertainty, disease mapping, and wastewater epidemiology.
Flexible distributions
Skew-elliptical models, identifiability, probabilistic reduction, and robust modeling.
Latest news
International Statistical Institute
Elected Council Member for the 2027–2031 term.
ANID Chile
Director of the Technical Monitoring Group for Grants in Mathematics since March 2025.
EcoSta 2026
Invited session “Advances and frontiers in statistical modeling and computing,” Ryukoku University, Kyoto, 8–10 August 2026.
Current profile
Mauricio Castro is an Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the same university in 2008 and previously served on the faculty of Universidad de Concepción.
His current appointments include Adjunct Researcher at SENTINET: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and New Technologies for Infectious Emerging Threats, and Researcher at the Center for the Discovery of Structures in Complex Data MiDaS.