Steffen Lilholt Lauritzen FRS (born 22 April 1947)[1] is former Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and currently Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Copenhagen.
[2] Lauritzen studied statistics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, completing the degree of Candidatus statisticae (M.Sc.
Lauritzen was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1984, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011.
[4] Lauritzen was awarded the 1996 Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society.
Lauritzen's book Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems (1999, Springer-Verlag), written jointly with Robert G. Cowell, Philip Dawid, and David Spiegelhalter, received the 2001 DeGroot Prize from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.