People
Academic staff
- Prof. Rosemary Bailey – design of experiments in agriculture, horticulture, ecology and medicine. [School web page] [Personal web page]
- Prof. David Borchers – spatial capture-recapture, camera trap surveys, terrestrial acoustic surveys. [School web page] Head of Statistical Ecology Research Group (part of CREEM).
- Dr. Alison Johnston – biodiversity monitoring; applications of citizen science in statistical ecology. [School web page]
- Prof. Andy Lynch – design or analysis of molecular biology experiments, especially applications of DNA/RNA sequencing to cancer research. [School web page] Head of Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology Research Group; co-head of Division of Statistics.
- Prof. Monique MacKenzie – random effects models; smoothing methods; applications in ecology. [School web page] [Personal web page] Vice-Principal (Digital Education, Research and Environment).
- Dr. Nicolò Margaritella – Bayesian statistics with applications to neuroscientific data. [School web page]
- Dr. Giorgos Minas – stochastic processes and multivariate statistics in molecular biology and medicine. [School web page]
- Dr. Elham Mirfarah – Multivariate analysis; survival analysis; finite mixture modelling; censored data. [School web page]
- Dr. Michael Papathomas – Bayesian methods with application to genetics and biostatistics. [School web page]
- Dr. Valentin Popov – time series and hidden process models. [School web page]
- Dr. Chris Sutherland – statistical ecology. [School web page] [Personal web page]
- Dr. Ben Swallow – Bayesian statistical inference; stochastic systems of biological processes; continuous zero-inflated data; applications in ecology. [Personal web page]
- Prof. Len Thomas – methods and software for wildlife estimating population size and trend; Bayesian inference for population dynamcis models; estimating effects of multiple stressors. [School web page] [Personal web page] Head of Statistical Methodology Research Group; co-head of Division of Statistics.
- Dr. Hannah Worthington – Hidden Markov models for mark-recapture analyses; links between ecological and epidemiological/medical methods. [School web page]
Research staff
- Dr. Phil Bouchet – population consequences of disturbance to North Atlantic right whales; quantitative marine ecology. [School web page] [Personal web page]
- Dr. M. Louise Burt – wildlife population assessment. [School web page]
- Dr. Ian Durbach – wildlife abundance estimation from camera traps; machine learning; operations research. [School web page]
- Dr. Danielle Harris – use of acoustic data to monitor wildlife populations. [School web page]
- Dr. Saana Isojunno – marine renewables and wildlife; quantitative animal ecology, particularly drivers of individual flexibility and resilience to stress. [School web page]
- Dr. Eiren Jacobson – quantiative marine mammal population assessment. [School web page] [Personal web page]
- Dr. Wei Jing – Gaussian mixtures and Bayesian mixtures of finite mixture models.
- Dr. Tiago Marques – topics in statistical ecology, including density estimation from passive acoustic data; public understanding of statistics. [School web page]
- Dr. Laura Marshall – research software engineering, particularly distance sampling software. [School web page]
- Dr. Cornelia Oedekoven – methods for quantitative wildlife population assessment. [School web page] [Personal web page]
- Dr. Charles Paxton – statistical ecology; cryptozoology; public understanding of science. [School web page]
- Dr. Theoni Photopoulou – movement ecology; cumulative impacts of multiple stressors. [School web page]
- Dr. Eric Rexstad – distance sampling software and methods; methods and software support. [School web page]
- Dr. Lindesay Scott-Hayward – spatially adaptive smoothing; modelling species distributions; environmental impact assessment; spatially-explicit power analysis. [School web page] [Personal web page]
Honorary and emeritus staff
- Prof. Steve Buckland – statistical ecology, especially modelling population dynamics, widlife resource management and population assessment, distance sampling and biodiversity monitoring. [School web page] [Personal web page]
- Prof. Richard Cormack – capture-recapture. [School web page]
- Dr. Carl Donovan – data mining, commercial statistics, multivariate statistics. [School web page]
- Prof. Peter Jupp – directional statistics, differential geometry of parametric inference, quantum stochastics. [School web page]
- Dr. Théo Michelot – methods and software for analysis of animal movement data, particularly using state-space and hidden Markov models, and stochastic differential equations. [School web page] [Personal web page]
PhD students
- Mr. Paul van Dam-Bates – spatial capture recapture with unknown identification.
- Ms. Amber Cowans – effect of human recreation on spatio-temporal species interaction networks.
- Mr. Yan Ru Choo – modelling heterogeneity in ecological surveys.
- Ms. Fanny Empacher – efficient methods for fitting nonlinear non-Gaussian state-space models of wildlife population dynamics.
- Mr. Calliste Fagard-Jenkin – parallel computing algorithms in ecological statistics.
- Mr. Filippo Franchini – continuous time acoustic spatial capture recapture with drones.
- Ms. Naici Guo – statistical analysis of proteomic experiments.
- Mr. Abinand Reddy Kodi – developing spatial capture recapture methods for understanding snow leopard population ecology.
- Mr. Haoyu Liu – algorithmic trading and dynamics in peer-to-peer (P2P) markets.
- Mr. Felix Petersma – acoustic and genetic abundance estimation methods for marine megafauna.
- Mr. Yifei Qian – applying machine learning techniques in ecology.
- Mr. Victor Velasco Pardo – statistical models for mutational signatures.
- Ms. Savannah Rogers – modelling population dynamics from photographic ID using spatial capture-recapture.
- Ms. Xiaoyue Yang – inferring gene regulation in prostate cancer.
- Mr. Hanyu (Harry) Wang – detecting clusters of multimorbidity using Bayesian mixture modelling.
- Mr. Yuheng Wang – automatic acoustic spatial capture recapture with machine learning.