Paul Fearnhead

Paul Fearnhead is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University since 2001, where he started as a lecturer. His academic journey includes a DPhil with Peter Clifford and a post-doctoral position with Peter Donnelly at the University of Oxford. He has been Editor of Biometrika since January 2018.

• Education: DPhil in Statistics (Oxford), Post-doctoral research (Oxford)
• Research Interests: Computational statistics with focus on sequential Monte Carlo methods, forward-backward filters, and changepoint detection algorithms; population genetics including bacterial inference for Campylobacter jejuni; Bayesian inference for diffusions and continuous-time stochastic processes.
• Research Funding: Lead investigator for EPSRC grants on Statistical Scalability (2016-2022), Health Sciences Bayesian Data Science (2018-2023), and CoSInES program (2018-2023) involving multiple UK institutions.
• Scientific Awards:
  • 2006 Adam's Prize
  • 2007 Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze

His collaborative work includes teaching the 2012 Modern Computational Statistics course through the Graduate Training Programme and interdisciplinary research on US college basketball ranking systems.