| Paul Fearnhead | |
| Workplaces: | Lancaster University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Thesis Title: | Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in Filter Theory |
| Thesis Url: | http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~fearnhea/thesis_abstract.html |
| Thesis Year: | 1998 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Peter Clifford |
| Academic Advisors: | Peter Donnelly |
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. Since January 2018 he has been the editor of Biometrika.[1]
Fearnhead won the Adams Prize in 2007.[2]
In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.