Claire Morton

I am a PhD student in Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Previously, I was a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Stanford RegLab. I hold a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science with a minor in Environmental Justice from Stanford University with honors and distinction (2024).

I am passionate about blending statistics with community-based research to drive policy change. I’m particularly interested in causal inference and spatial statistics. As an undergraduate, I conducted research on the demographics of people living near oil wells in California, links between soil quality and human health, optimal locations for climate resilience hubs, and screening tools to classify disadvantaged communities. As a research fellow, I conducted research improving methods for ecological inference, quantifying the temporal links between parents’ political partisanship and children’s vaccination rates, and elucidating the effect of dairy digester construction on facility size.

In addition to statistics, I’m passionate about making theater.