Statistics Section

Photo Name Awards
  NA Prof Niall Adams 

Rector's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision (2012), Credit Collections and Risk, Contributions to the credit industry prize winner (2012), Winton Research Prize (2011), The ALADDIN project won "The Engineer" Technology and Innovation Award, in the Aerospace and Defence category (2009)

Dr Heather Battey Dr Heather Battey

Fellow in the Institute of Mathematical Statistic for contributions to statistical theory and applied probability (2023), keynoe speaker of Knibbs Lecture of the Statistical Society of Australia (2022), Imperial College President’s Award for Excellence in Research; Outstanding Early Career Researcher

Dr Andrew Duncan

Dr Andrew Duncan

Royal Society APEX Award (2018 - 2020)

Prof Philip Ernst

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) (2025), Lebesgue Chair for 2023, Royal Society Wolfson Fellow (2022)

Prof Axel Gandy

SPI-M-O Award for Modelling and Data Support from the UK Government Office (2022)

  DH  Prof David Hand

Honorary Doctorate (Krakow University of Economics 2024), Honorary Doctorate (University of Waterloo 2023), Research Medal of the International Federation of Classification Societies (2019), Awarded the George Box Medal (2016), appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013, New Year Honours for services to research and innovation, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2006-2011), Elected President of the Royal Statistical Society (2007-2009), Outstanding contributions to the Mathematical Sciences (2005), IEEE-ICDM Award for Outstanding Contributions (2004), Fellow of the British Academy (2003), Guy Medal in Silver (2002), Thomas L Satay Prize for Applied Advances in the Mathematical and Management Sciences (2001)

Prof Daniel Mortlock

 

Prof Daniel Mortlock 

Fellow of the International Astrostatistics Association (2020), Gruber Prize for Planck (2018), Royal Astronomical Society Group Award for Planck (2018), Royal Astronomical Society Group Award for UKIDSS (2012)

 

Prof Guy Nason

Prof Guy Nason

appointed as one of the Deputy Chair to lead REF 2029’s Sub-Panel for Mathematical Sciences (2025), Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze (2001)

Dr Ioanna Papatsouma

elected as Chair of the RSS Teaching Statistics Section (2025), Appointed Data Science Ambassador (2022)

Dr Oliver Ratmann

ISBA Biopharma Best Paper Award (2024), Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow (Wellcome Trust (2010-2015)

Dr Robin Ryder

Corcoran medal, University of Oxford (2012); Savage award honorable mention, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2010).

Dr Adam Sykulski

Elected to the Royal Statistical Society Council (2025-2028)

Professor David Van Dyke  Prof David van Dyk

Founders Award - American Statistical Association (2019), Royal Society Wolfson Merit Research Award (2011-2016), Elected Fellow of the International Astrostatistics Association (2016), Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2010), Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2006)

 veraart Prof Almut Veraart

Olga Taussky Pauli Fellowship at the Wolfgang Pauli Institute (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017)

Prof Alastair Young

Institute of Mathematical Statistics fellowship (2002); SEIO-BBVA Foundation Award 2025 for `Best methodological contribution in Statistics'.

  AW  Prof Andrew Walden Rector`s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011), Van Weelden Award (1984)

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Trish Watson
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