Naomi Wray
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| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | University of Edinburgh (BSc, 1984; PhD, 1989) Cornell University (MS, 1986)[1] |
| Known for | Research on genetic architectureofcomplex traits |
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| Fields | Quantitative genetics |
| Institutions | University of Queensland |
| Thesis | Consequences of selection in finite populations with particular reference to closed nucleus herds of pigs (1989) |
| Doctoral advisors | Bill Hill Robin Thompson |
Naomi Ruth Wray FAA FAHMS is an Australian statistical geneticist at the University of Queensland, where she is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and an Affiliate Professor in the Queensland Brain Institute. She is also a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow and, along with Peter Visscher and Jian Yang, is one of the three executive team members of the NHMRC-funded Program in Complex Trait Genomics.[2] Naomi pioneered the use of polygenic scores in human genetics, and has made significant contributions to both the development of methods and their clinical use.
Wray has a B.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh (1984),[3] and an M.S. from Cornell University in 1986.[4] She earned her Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Edinburgh where she worked on population genetics.[5]
She was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2016[6][7] and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020.
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