Steve Brooks (statistician)

Steve Brooks
Born	July 1970
Residence	UK
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Bristol University of Kent University of Cambridge
Awards	Guy Medal (Bronze, 2005) Philip Leverhulme Prize RSS Research Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Computational and Applied Statistics
Institutions	University of Bristol University of Surrey University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Gareth Roberts
Doctoral students	Yanan Fan Ruth King Ricardo Ehlers Lara Jamieson Garfield Brown Teresa Barata Paul Birrell Alex Glaser Chiara Mazzetta Ioanna Manolopoulou Vanessa Cave Christiana Spyrou Silvia Figini Luciana Dalla Valle

Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd, a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.

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 Kings College, Cambridge. and then of Wolfson College.

He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.

He is one of the founding directors of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology 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

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