Paul Fearnhead
| Paul Fearnhead | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of Oxford | 
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Lancaster University | 
| Thesis | Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in Filter Theory (1998) | 
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Clifford | 
| Other academic advisors | Peter Donnelly | 
| Website | www | 
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.