He has held the position of Professor of Biostatistics in Genomics in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford since September 2014, a post that carries with it a Fellowship of St Anne's College, Oxford.

[1] Previously he was titular Professor of Biostatistics and a Fellow of Lincoln College.

After working in industry he completed his doctorate in Bayesian statistics at Imperial College, London, supervised by Adrian Smith.

Holmes was awarded the 2003 Research Prize[3] and the 2009 Guy Medal in Bronze[4] by the Royal Statistical Society.

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