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Dr. Anthony J. Webster is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Statistics at the University of Oxford's Statistics Department within the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. He joined the department in September 2023 to work with David Steinsaltz on developing new methods to study patients with multiple long-term conditions ("multi-morbidity"). His research is closely related to his previous fellowship work at CTSU, Oxford Population Health (2019-2022), which was funded by the Nuffield Department of Population Health and focused on developing novel methods for big-data epidemiological studies.
Dr. Webster's research interests center on the development and application of novel mathematical methods to analyze large epidemiological datasets. His work combines epidemiological methods with modern clustering techniques and biologically-motivated disease models. Key contributions include multi-stage disease modeling using UK Biobank data and pioneering the use of the Poisson-Binomial model to quantify how much disease risk can be explained by old age and established risk factors. His research spans computational statistics, epidemiology, disease modeling, and statistical genetics, with earlier work in plasma physics and climate change research.
His publications demonstrate significant contributions across epidemiology, biostatistics, and plasma physics. Recent work focuses on disease clustering, risk factor analysis, and multimorbidity patterns, while earlier research examined plasma instabilities in nuclear fusion experiments. His work has appeared in prestigious journals including Nature, PNAS Nexus, and Physical Review Letters.
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Publications in Nature, PNAS Nexus, Scientific Reports, and Physical Review Letters
- Press coverage in New Scientist and Daily Telegraph
Dr. Webster has extensive teaching experience across multiple institutions. At the University of Oxford, he lectures on Advanced Simulation Methods (MCMC), supervises M.Sc. theses on Climate Change Loss and Damage, and tutors in various statistical courses. Previously, he taught at the University of Bristol on plasma physics topics and organized summer schools. He has supervised multiple summer students at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, with all projects leading to published work. His outreach activities include talks at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, public lectures on pandemics, and participation in the Oxford Policy Engagement Network.
