Steve Brooks | |
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Born | July 1970 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater |
University of Bristol University of Kent University of Cambridge |
Awards |
Guy Medal (Bronze, 2005) Philip Leverhulme Prize RSS Research Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational and Applied Statistics |
Institutions |
University of Bristol University of Surrey University of Cambridge |
Doctoral advisor | Gareth Roberts [1] |
Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd, [2] a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. [3]
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. [4] and then of Wolfson College. [5]
He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.
He is one of the founding directors [6] of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology [7] 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 [8]