About

John is currently the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Cambridge and the Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life. Beyond Cambridge, he serves as President of the Royal Statistical Society and has previously been a non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority.

Research

John’s research focusses on:

• Applied Statistics, with interests in:
  • Official and Public Policy Statistics
  • Statistical Neuroimaging
  • Statistical Linguistics
• Methodological interests including:
  • Functional and Manifold Data Analysis
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Image Analysis
  • Changepoint Analysis
  • Spatio-temporal Statistics
  • Sequential Monte Carlo techniques