Probability and Statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester

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About This Page:

This page provides an overview of the Probability and Statistics group of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, UK.

The reason for the existence of this page is to collect information about the group all in one place (this info is otherwise dispersed across official web sites).

Research Themes:

The Probability and Statistics group is involved in the following departmental research themes:

1. Statistics, inverse problems, uncertainty quantification and data science,
2. Probability, financial mathematics and actuarial science and
3. Mathematics in the life sciences.

Currently Recruiting:

Currently no open positions

Members of the Probability and Statistics group:

See also the official staff list of the Department of Mathematics.

Below is a list of the current 31 academic members affiliated with the group (Jan. 2024), arranged by their main field of work:

1. Probability:
   • Goran Peskir (Professor of Probability)
   • Malwina Luczak (Professor of Applied Probability and Leverhulme International Professor)
   • Denis Denisov (Senior Lecturer in Probability)
   • Xiong Jin (Senior Lecturer in Probability)
   • Robert Gaunt (Senior Lecturer in Probability and Statistics)
   • William Fitzgerald (Lecturer in Probability), from July 2024
   • Mikolaj Jakub Kasprzak (Lecturer in Probability), from September 2024
2. Financial Mathematics:
   • Thomas Bernhardt (Lecturer in Financial Mathematics)
   • Ngọc Huy Châu (Lecturer in Financial Mathematics)
   • Peter Johnson (Lecturer in Financial Mathematics)
3. Actuarial Science:
   • Kees van Schaik (Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science)
   • Jonathan Ferns (Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science)
   • TBA (Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science), from January 2025.
   • Jose M. Pedraza Ramirez (Lecturer in Actuarial Science and Statistics)
4. Statistics and Data Science:
   • Korbinian Strimmer (Professor in Statistics)
   • Theodore Papamarkou (Professor in Mathematics of Data Science)
   • Saralees Nadarajah (Reader in Probability and Statistics)
   • Madhuchhanda Bhattacharjee (Reader in Statistics and Data Science)
   • Peter Foster (Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics)
   • Yang Han (Senior Lecturer in Statistics)
   • Yuk Ka Chung (Senior Lecturer in Statistics and Probability)
   • Georgi Boshnakov (Lecturer in Statistics)
   • Jingsong Yuan (Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics)
   • Christiana Charalambous (Lecturer in Statistics)
   • Timothy Waite (Lecturer in Statistics)
   • Olatunji Johnson (Lecturer in Statistics)
   • Wentao Li (Lecturer in Statistics)
   • Inês Henriques-Cadby (Lecturer in Mathematics of Data Science)
5. Mathematical Epidemiology:
   • Thomas House (Professor of Mathematical Sciences)
   • Ian Hall (Professor of Mathematical Epidemiology and Statistics)
   • Lorenzo Pellis (Professor of Mathematical Biology)

There are also a number of further colleagues in the Department working in areas relevant to the P&S group (e.g. data science, machine learning, mathematical finance) who are affiliated with Applied Mathematics or Pure Mathematics.

Current Main Functions:

• Head of group: Prof. Korbinian Strimmer
• Group teaching lead: Dr. Kees van Schaik
• Group research lead: Prof. Malwina Luczak
• Group PGR director: Dr. Olatunji Johnson

Previous Members:

• Jennifer Sexton (Teaching Fellow in Mathematics), now at Unversity of Leeds.
• Sebastian Andres (Lecturer in Probability and Actuarial Science), now at Dept. of Mathematics, Technical University of Braunschweig.
• Ronnie Loeffen (Lecturer in Financial Actuarial Science), now at Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool.
• Jonathan Bagley (Lecturer in Probability and Statistics), now retired. Honorary Lecturer.
• Neil Walton (Reader in Applied Probability), now at Business School, Durham University.
• Sebastian Herrmann (Lecturer in Financial Mathematics), now at Susquehanna International Group, Dublin.
• Jianxin Pan (Professor in Statistics), now at Division of Science and Technology, UIC, Tangjiawan, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai, China.
• Tusheng Zhang (Professor in Probability), now at School of Mathematics, USTC, Baohe District, Hefei, China.
• Alex Watson (Lecturer in Probability and Actuarial Science), now at Dept. of Statistical Science, University College London.