Biography:
I graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1999 with a degree in Mathematics and Management Science. I subsequently undertook a Master's Degree in Statistics, graduating in 2000. From 2000-2002 I worked as a statistician for the British Market Research Bureau (later taken over by Millward Brown) in London. In 2002 I started a PhD in statistics at the University of Sheffield working with Professor Clive Anderson on the Bayesian analysis of relative sea level change. I completed the PhD in 2005 and graduated in 2006. From 2005-2008 I was a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin working with Professor John Haslett on palaeoclimate reconstruction. In 2008 I was appointed Lecturer in Statistics in the School of Mathematical Sciences in UCD, gaining tenure in 2011.
My main statistical interest is in Bayesian stochastic processes. I am particularly interested in Gaussian processes with non-stationary autocovariance, compositional data analysis and monotonic processes. I have applied such models to a variety of environmental, biomedical and ecological science problems relating to: spatio-temporal climate reconstruction, stable isotope mixing models, the development of biomarker panels, sea-level change and radiocarbon dating.
