| Steve Brooks | |
| Birth Date: | July 1970 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Fields: | Computational and Applied Statistics |
| Workplaces: | University of Bristol University of Surrey University of Cambridge |
| Alma Mater: | University of Bristol University of Kent University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Gareth Roberts |
| Awards: | Guy Medal Philip Leverhulme Prize RSS Research Prize |
Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd,[1] a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.[2]
He received a degree in mathematics from Bristol University in 1991, and a master's degree in statistics from the University of Kent. He received his PhD at Cambridge; his supervisor was Gareth Roberts. Post-graduation he then returned to Bristol as a lecturer in the Statistics Group and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. In 2000 Brooks returned to Cambridge first as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.[3] and then of Wolfson College.[4]
He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.
He is one of the founding directors[5] of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology[6] which was set up in 2005.
He left Cambridge in 2006 to become Director of Research for ATASS Sports and is now executive director of Select Statistical Services Ltd a statistical consultancy firm based in Exeter and the Director of the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its Applications[7]