Ross Towe (statistics, PhD student)
I completed my undergraduate degree in Financial Mathematics at Lancaster University. During the summer after graduating from my bachelors, I completed a summer internship in the market risk management department of TMB bank. I found this a highly rewarding experience as I saw first-hand how statistics was used in a number of different applications. I then completed a Masters in Statistics, again at Lancaster University. I started my PhD in January 2011 with my research focused on the dynamical and statistical downscaling approaches of analysing the future wave climate of the North Sea. The project is a collaborative project between Lancaster University and Shell. My academic supervisors are Emma Eastoe and Jonathan Tawn and my industrial supervisors from Shell are Nicolas Fournier and Philip Jonathan. I recently attended the Advanced Study Program at NCAR, which focused on the Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under Climate Change and will be presenting a poster at the Environmental Risk and Extreme Events conference in Ascona, Switzerland.
Research Interests
- Extreme value theory
- Dynamical and Statistical downscaling
- Climate modelling
- Forecasting
Personal Interests
- Surfing
- Travelling
Room: B71 Postgraduate Statistics CentrePhone:
Email: r.towe@lancaster.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~towe
