Amanda Turner is Professor of Statistics at the University of Leeds. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in Scaling Limits of Stochastic Processes in 2007. Before moving to Leeds, she taught probability and stochastic processes for finance at Lancaster University and the University of Geneva for over fifteen years. She is a founding member of the Royal Statistical Society's Applied Probability Section and is heavily involved in the London Mathematical Society, including as a member of council since 2021. When not doing mathematics, she enjoys mountaineering and skiing.