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Professor Jonathan Tawn

Jonathan has been Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University since 1996.
He was Head of the Statistics Section of the Department from 1996-2000 and then Head of Department from 2000-2007. For the academic years 2007-8 and 2008-9 he is on sabbatical but will mostly be based in Lancaster throughout this time. 

Awards

Awarded the Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze in 1993.

Research Interests

He has a wide interest range of  in Extreme Value Theory, Methods and Applications.

Interests in Theory and Methods:

Applications: Other areas of statistics that interest me are:

Current Collaborators

Postgraduate Students

Current PhD students

  1.
  2. Emma Eastoe: since 2004:  Extreme value modelling for dependent and non-stationary data [Joint supervsion with Crispin Halsall]
  3. David Wyncoll: since 2005: Particle filter methods for extreme value data [Joint supervision with Paul Fearnhead] 
  4. Sawsan Abbas: since 2006: Extreme value modelling of multivariate financial time series.
Previous PhD students and their thesis titles
  1. Stuart Coles (1991). Statistical Methodology for the Multivariate Analysis of Environmental Extremes. Based on this work Stuart was awarded the RSS Young Researchers prize.
  2. Saralees Nadarajah (1994). Multivariate Extreme Value Methods with Applications to Reservoir Flood Safety. [Joint supervision with Clive Anderson].
  3. Mark Dixon (1995). Statistical Analysis of Extreme Sea-Levels.
  4. Ledford, A. W. (1995). Dependence within Extreme Values: Theory and Applications. Based on this work Anthony was awarded the RSS Young Researchers prize.
  5. Paola Bortot (1997). Analisi Della Dipendenza Tra Valori Estremi. External supervision for University of Padova.
  6. Harper, L. (1997). Model-based Geostatistics in Environmental Sciences. [joint supervision with Peter Diggle].
  7. Mike Robinson (1997). Statistics for Offshore Extremes.
  8. Miguel Ancona-Navarrete (2000). Dependence Modelling and Spatial Prediction for Extreme Values.
  9. Scarrott, C. (2003). Reactor modelling and risk assessment, [joint supervison with Granville. Tunnicliffe-Wilson].
  10. Fabrizio Laurini (2003). Extreme Value Analysis for Time Series. External supervision for University of Padova.
  11. Christpoher Ferro (2003). Statistical methods for clusters of extreme values.
  12. Alec Stephenson (2003). Extreme Value Distributions and their Application.
  13. Adam Butler (2005). Statistical Modelling of Synthetic Oceanographic Extremes. [joint supervison with Janet Heffernan].
  14. Mark Latham (2006). Statistical Methodology for the Extreme Values of Dependent Processes.
  15. Tilman Payer (2007). Modelling Extreme Wind Speeds. External supervision for University of Munich.
  16. Caroline Keef (2007). Spatial Modelling of Extreme River Flows.[Case studentship with Cecilia Svensson at CEH Wallingford]
  17. Bakri Adam (2007). Extreme Value Modelling for Sports Data
  18. Paul Smith (2007): Uncertainty analysis in hydrology modelling [Joint with Keith Beven].
Previous Research Assistants (if different from PhD students)
  1. Rana Moyeed 1993-96: Model-based geostatistcs 
  2. John Bruun 1994-96: Multivariate models for sea-level joint probabilities
  3. Martin Schlather 1998-1999: Multivariate and spatial extremes.
  4. Keming Yu 1998-1999: Model-based spatial process modelling.
  5. Janet Heffernan  1998-2000: Conditional modelling for multivariate extreme values.

Personal Interests

Family