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Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)

Our people

Learn more about our team of expert statisticians by exploring our staff biography pages.

Professor Danny Pfeffermann

Professor of Social Statistics

Research interests

  • Analytic inference from complex sample surveys ; Seasonal adjustment and trend estimation; Small area estimation; Inference under informative sampling and non-ignorable nonresponse with applications to small area estimation, observational studies and statistical matching; Mode effects and Proxy surveys,

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Dasha Semochkina

Research Fellow in Statistics

Research interests

  • computational methods in Bayesian statistics
  • building emulators
  • using emulators for Bayesian optimisation problems

Professor Dave Woods

Professor of Statistics

Research interests

  • Design of experiments
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Statistical computing

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr David Culliford

Principal Research Fellow

Professor Erengul Dodd

Professor of Actuarial Math & Statistics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Euan McGonigle

Lecturer in Statistics

Research interests

  • Nonstationary time series analysis
  • Change point detection
  • Multiscale methods in statistics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Fangsheng Ge PhD

Lecturer in Management Science

Research interests

  • Maritime Transportation
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Mathematical/Statistical modelling

Accepting applications from PhD students

Mr Francesco Pantalone PhD

Lecturer in Official Statistics

Research interests

  • Computational Statistics
  • Official Statistics
  • Sampling Theory

Professor Gabriele Durrant PhD

Prof of Social Stats & Survey Method

Research interests

  • survey data collection
  • survey methodology
  • statistical modelling

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Helen Ogden

Lecturer in Statistics

Research interests

  • Flexible regression models
  • Models for longitudinal and clustered data
  • Models for count data

Accepting applications from PhD students