Steve Brooks (statistician)
Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Like resume Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is a British statistician. He is the 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]
Career
- 1989–1991 Undergraduate, University of Bristol
- 1991–1992 Graduate Student, University of Kent
- 1992–1993 Research Associate, University of Kent
- 1993–1996 Research Student, University of Cambridge
- 1996–1999 Lecturer, University of Bristol
- 1999–2000 Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey
- 2000–2002 Lecturer, University of Cambridge
- 2002–2005 Reader, University of Cambridge[8]
- 2005–2008 Professor, University of Cambridge[9]
- 2006–2011 Director of Research ATASS[10]
- 2011-Executive Director Select Statistical Services Ltd
Degrees and Qualifications
- 1991 BSc Mathematics, Bristol
- 1992 MSc Statistics, Kent
- 1996 PhD, Cambridge
- 1999 Chartered Statistician
- 2011 Chartered Scientist
Honours and awards
- 2005 Royal Statistical Society's Guy medal in Bronze[11]
- 2004 Philip Leverhulme Prize[12]
- 1999 Royal Statistical Society's Research prize
Books
- Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo edited by Steve Brooks, Andrew Gelman, Galin Jones and Xiao-Li Meng; Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011[13]
- Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology by Ruth King, Olivier Gimenez, Byron Morgan and Steve Brooks; Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2009[14]
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