Person

Baddeley, Adrian John (1955 - )

FAA

Born
25 May 1955
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Mathematician and Statistician

Summary

Adrian John Baddeley is one of Australia's top statisticians whose research interests include stochastic geometry, spatial statistics and stereology. He is presently Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Western Australia. In 2004 Baddeley was awarded the Pitman Medal by the Statistical Society of Australia in recognition of his outstanding achievement in, and contribution to, the discipline of Statistics.

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Chronology

1973 - 1976
Education - Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)), Australian National University in Canberra
1977 - 1980
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge, UK
1979 - 1982
Career position - Research Fellow of Trinity College at Cambridge
1981
Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics at Yale University, USA
1982
Career position - Lecturer in Mathematical Tripos Part III, University of Cambridge
1982 - 1985
Career position - Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bath, UK
1983 - 1985
Career position - Chair of the Committee on Geometrical Statistics for the International Society for Stereology
1985 - 1988
Career position - Research Scientist then Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Mathematics and Statistics in Sydney
1988 - 1994
Career position - Research Group Leader at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989
Career position - Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Washington, USA
1991 - 1996
Career position - Adjunct Professor (Bijzonder Hoogleraar) in the Applications of Mathematics within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
1994 - 2010
Career position - Professor of Statistics, University of Western Australia
1995
Award - Australian Mathematical Society Medal received
1995 - 1998
Career position - Council member of the Australian Mathematical Society
1995 - 1998
Career position - Member of the Academic Council of the University of Western Australia
1996 - 1999
Career position - Australasian Vice-President of the International Society for Stereology
1998 - 2000
Career position - Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia
1999 - 2001
Career position - Member of Council, Bernoulli Society
2000 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - For service to Australian society and science in mathematics and statistics
2001
Award - Hannan Medal, Australian Academy of Science
2004
Award - Pitman Medal, Statistical Society of Australia
2008
Career position - Matherson Lecturer, International Society for Mathematical Geology
2010 - 2013
Career position - Research Scientist, CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
2013 - 2014
Career position - DORA Fellow, Centre for Targeting, University of Western Australia
2015 -
Career position - Professor of Computational Statistics, Curtin University

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  • Who's who in Australia 2012 (Melbourne: Crown Content Pty Ltd, 2012), 2430 pp. Details

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