She earned her PhD at the University of Washington in 2013 and spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. Dr. Fosdick’s research primarily focuses on developing methodology for the statistical analysis of social networks, motivated by pressing questions in population ecology, public health, political science, and sociology. Working closely with researchers in these fields, Dr. Fosdick focuses on constructing realistic network models, which are theoretically justified, leverage domain knowledge, and decompose network dependencies into interpretable quantities.