Dr Vicki Livingstone is a Biostatistician working with the Neonatal Brain Research Group, Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research. She has worked with the group since 2010 providing biostatistical support (study design, statistical analysis and reporting of results) for the various research projects that are being conducted. Prior to working with the group, she was a Lecturer in Biostatistics in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. As part of that role, she also provided statistical consultation to researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. Before this she was a Lecturer in Statistics in the Department of

Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Limerick where she received her PhD in Statistics in 2001. She is interested in the application of statistics to real-life problems in the health sciences area and has been co-author of 12 papers since 2012.