Paul Fearnhead is the Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University.
He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods.
His interests include changepoint analysis, sampling theory and genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes.
[2] In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.
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