Gareth Owen Roberts FRS FLSW (born 1964) is a statistician and applied probabilist. He is

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in the Department of Statistics and Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

. He is an established authority on the stability of Markov chains, especially applied to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) theory methodology for a wide range of latent statistical models with applications in spatial statistics,

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and

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Education

Roberts was educated at Liverpool Blue Coat School and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating in 1985 in

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and subsequently went on to complete in 1988 a PhD thesis on ''Some boundary hitting problems for diffusion processes'' under the supervision of Saul Jacka at the

Career

Following his PhD, Roberts held various academic positions at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

, the

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and Lancaster University before returning to the

. He was a

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of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1992 to 1998. Roberts is a talented tournament bridge player, whose achievements include winning the Great Northern Swiss Pairs in 1997, and the Garden Cities Trophy in 2008 and 2013.

Awards and honours

*1995 – Raybould Fellowship *1997 – Royal Statistical Society's Guy medal in Bronze *1999 – Rollo Davidson Prize of the

*2004 – ISI highly cited researcher (Mathematics: Ranked 16th ) *2008 – Royal Statistical Society's Guy medal in Silver *2009 – Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion *2010 – Editor of

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(Series B) *2013 – Elected a Fellow of the

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*2019 - Elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales His nomination to become a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013 reads: *2015 – Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, Gareth Living people English statisticians Alumni of the University of Warwick Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the University of Nottingham Date of birth missing (living people) 1964 births British mathematical statisticians Computational statisticians Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales