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Date of Birth: 15 May 1959
Work Address: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 1BN
Tel. PA: (44) 1865 287725 Fax: (44) 1865 287664
email: peter.donnelly@well.ox.ac.uk; PA: directorpa@well.ox.ac.uk
ACADEMIC RECORD
University of Queensland: Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Mathematics (1976-1979)
University of Oxford: DPhil in Mathematics (1980-1983), Balliol College
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2007-current
Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford
1996-current
Professor of Statistical Science, University of Oxford - Head of the Department of Statistics 1996-2001
1994-1996
Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
1988-1994
Professor of Mathematical Statistics and Operational Research, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London
1985-1988
Lecturer, Department of Statistical Science, University College London
1984-1985
University of Wales Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University College of Swansea
1983-1984
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
AWARDS AND HONOURS
2009 Awarded Weldon Memorial Prize for 2008
2008 Elected as Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences
2007 Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2006 Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society
2004 Guy Medal in Silver, Royal Statistical Society
2002 Mitchell Prize, of the American Statistical Association and ISBA
2002 Editor’s Invited Paper, Statistical Society of Australia
2001 Forum Lecturer, European Meeting of Statisticians
2000 Bernoulli Lecturer, 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society
1999 Elected Honorary Fellow, Institute of Actuaries
1995 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1990-1995 SERC Advanced Fellowship
1988 Elected Ordinary Member of the International Statistical Institute
1984-1985 University of Wales Research Fellowship
1980-1983 Rhodes Scholarship
1980 University Medal, University of Queensland
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Research Students:
Paul Marjoram 1986-1989
Parminder Saggu 1988-1991
Adrian Roe 1988-1991
Eliane Rodrigues 1989-1992
Hilde Herbots 1990-1994
Anna Pluzhnikov 1994-1996
Erich Maritz 1997-2002
Paula Curnow 1998-2002
George Nicholson 1998-2002
Emma Hawe 2001-
Stephen Leslie 2003-
Yik Yik Teo 2003-2007
Damjan Vukcevic 2005-
Eliana Hechter 2006-
Postdoctoral Research Assistants and Research Fellows:
Paul Marjoram 1989-1992 Mark Pagel 1991-1994 Mark Beaumont 1991-1992
Diana Pallant 1992-1994 Matthew Stephens 1997-2000 Rory Bowden 1997-2008
Jonathan Pritchard 1998-2001 Paul Fearnhead 1998-2001 Carsten Wiuf 1998-2001
Vincent Macaulay 1999-2003 Molly Prezworski 2000-2002 Carlos Bustamante 2001-2002
Jonathan Marchini 2001-2005 Simon Myers 2002-2005 Daniel Falush 2003-2007
Colin Freeman 2004-2007 Leonardo Bottolo 2004-2006 Susana Eyheramendy 2004-06
Raphaelle Chaix 2004-2007 George Nicholson 2005-2008 Ingileif Halgrimsdottir 2005-08
Tanya Golubchik 2007-2009
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND EDITORIAL SERVICES
International HapMap Project: Co-Chair, Analysis Group; Member, Steering Committee (2002-2005)
UK Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Chairman (2005-)
Wellcome Trust: Chairman, Study Design Expert Group (2004- )
Population and Public Health Strategy Committee (2005-)
Chairman, Biomedical Resources Panel (2003-2004)
Biomedical Collections Panel (2000-2002)
Tropical Medicine Interest Group (1997-2000)
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation/Wellcome Trust Joint Panel: Chairman, 2000
EPSRC: Mathematics College (1996-1998), DTA Panel (2003)
NERC: Environmental Genomics Data Panel (2001-)
Royal Society: Sectional Committee 9 (2007-2010)
Member of Council, Institute for Mathematical Statistics (1999-2002); IMS Committee on Fellows (1998-2001)
Associate Editorships: Advances in Applied Probability (1990- ), Biometrika (1992-1996), Journal of Applied Probability (1990- ). Book review editor, Annals of Probability (1991-1994).
CONSULTING
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), deCODE Genetics (1996-2003)
SAB Member: Genizon Biosciences (2004- ), InforSense (2004- )
Consultancy advice to lawyers (in the UK, USA, and Canada) on statistical issues which arise in legal cases; expert witness in trials and several appeal cases.
RESEARCH GRANTS
NIH: GAIN FORMTEXT __– Analysis Methodology Group £14,957, 24/07/2007-23/07/2008
Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award: £127,500, 01/04/2007-31/12/2012
NIH: ENDGAME Statistical Methods for Genome-wide Association Studies £200,507, 01/06/2006-31/05/2009
Nuffield Foundation: Student research bursary (Helene Neufeld) £1,310, 17/07/2006-16/09/2006
European Commission MolPage: Molecular Phaenotyping to Accelerate Genomic Epidemiology £375,000, 01/10/2004 -30/09/2008
MRC: Developing Statistical Methods to meet the demands of Experimental Geonomics £73,495, 01/04/2004- 31/03/2007
NIH: HapMap Data Analysis £515,543, 01/11/2003-31/08/2006
TSC/SNP Consortium: Participation in the development and construction of human Haplotype maps - £29,412, 01/04/2003 -31/12/2006
Nuffield Trust: Research Fellowship in Medical Mathematics - £142,190, 21/02/2002-20/10/2005. (Key prior award.)
EPSRC – Bioinformatics Centre Bid £1,168,083, 01/09/2001-06/06/2007
Wellcome Trust Grant 076113: “Design and implementation of large-scale genetic association studies of common diseases” (co-PI, with 25 others, and Chairman of the Management Committee) start 1.5.05, £8.6M
EU, 6th Framework: “Molecular Phenotyping to Accelerate Genomic Epidemiology”, (EU wide collaboration) start 1.10.04, Donnelly group award, €600,000
Wellcome Trust Grant 072974: “A UK control population: combined genetic analysis of a rurally based sample and the 1958 birth cohort” (co-PI, with Walter Bodmer and Lon Cardon), start 1.7.04, £2.3M
NIH: “HapMap Data Analysis” (PI, with Gil McVean and Lon Cardon), start 1.9.03, $860K
Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship: “Statistical analysis of bacterial variation”, start date 1.08.03, £341K, for Dr D. Falush
The SNP Consortium: “Statistical Tools for Haplotype Analysis” (PI, with Gil McVean, Robert Griffiths and Jotun Hein), start 1.12.02, $50K
Wolfson Foundation: secondary equipment for the Oxford Centre for Gene Function (co-PI with K. E. Davies, C. Ellory and F. M. Ashcroft) 2002, £1.7M
Nuffield Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Mathematics, start 1.10.02 £142K
Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship: “Data Mining Large Genetic Datasets”. Start date 01.02.02. £118K, for Dr. J. Marchini
UK Joint Research Councils' Initiative on Bioinformatics: “University of Oxford Bioinformatics Unit” £1.2M
UK Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF) Grant: “The Oxford Centre for Gene Function.” (co-PI with F.M. Ashcroft and K.E. Davies) £10M
Wellcome Trust Junior Research Fellowship: “Novel statistical methods for understanding biodiversity in pathogens and their vectors”. Start date 01.10.99. £105K, for Dr. M. Stephens
Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship: “Foundational issues in the use of mtDNA for demographic inference” Start date 01.10.99, £160K, for Dr. V. Macaulay
EPSRC Grant: GR/M14197: “Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Models and Inference for Population Genetics.” (PI, with A.M. Etheridge and C.N. Laws) £122K. Start date 1.10.98
BBSRC Grant 43/MMI09788: “Coalescent-Based Estimation of Demographic Parameters, Selection, and Genealogical Structure in Multilocus Genetic Data Sets.” (PI, with. D. Goldstein) £132K. Start date 1.9.98
Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship: “Molecular Diversity of HSV-1 and Human Evolution” 1997 – 2001, £145K, for Dr. R. Bowden
NATO Advanced Study Institute: “Genes, Fossils, and Behaviour: An Integrated Approach to Human Evolution”. BF 3,000,000
National Science Foundation USA, Grant DMS 9505129: “Stochastic Models in Population Genetics”. $75K. Start Date 1.7.95
University of Chicago, Louis H. Block Foundation Grant: “Stochastic Modelling in Genetics”. $32,956. Start Date 1.7.94
SERC: Advanced Fellowship, 1990-1995
SERC Grant GR/H 22880: “Theoretical and Computational Investigation of Certain Stochastic Models”. £8K. Start date 11.11.92
SERC Grant GR/F 98727: “Probabilistic Modelling and Statistical Analysis of DNA Sequences”. (With D.J. Balding) £81K. Start date 1.1.91
SERC Grant GR/F 11101: “The Effects of Population Structure on Correlations between Loci and Alleles at the Molecular Level”. (co-PI, with R. Nichols) £65K. Start date 1.1.91
SERC Grant GR/G 27485: “Genealogical Structure of the Fleming-Viot Measure-Valued Diffusion”. £5K. Start date 1.6.90. Visiting Fellowship for Professor T.G. Kurtz
SERC Grant GR/F 94019: “Stochastic Models for Multigene Families”. £18K. Start date 1.2.90. Visiting Fellowship for Dr. G.A. Watterson
EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre at the Life Sciences Interface (co-PI, with J. Ryan, M. Brady and D. Gavaghan) £5M over 2002-2010
EPSRC Masters Training Package in Bioinformatics (co-PI, with M. Gray) £450K 2002-2006
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION (Past 10 years)
Session on Genetics of Complex Traits, Biology of Genomes Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, 2007 Keystone Meeting on Human Genetics, Big Sky, Montana, 2006
Genomic Studies and the HapMap, Oxford 2005
Session Organiser (Statistics in Population Genetics and Evolution), Annual Meeting IMS, Banff 2002
Minisymposium on “Mathematics in Modern Genetics”, Third European Congress of Mathematics, Barcelona, 2000
Biomolecular Function and Evolution in the Context of the Genome Project - six month programme held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, July-December 1998
Genes, Fossils, and Behaviour: an Integrated Approach to Human Evolution. NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cambridge, September 1998
Session Organiser (Forensic Statistics) IMS Meeting, Rostock, Germany, August 1997
Statistics in Molecular Biology, Seattle, June 1997
23rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (Program Committee), Singapore, June 1995
INVITED CONFERENCE LECTURES (Past 10 years)
2007
GeneMappers Conference, Brisbane, Australia
Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, USA
Genomics of Common Disease, Hinxton, UK
2006
GAIN Kick-Off Meeting, Washington, USA
Genome-wide Association Studies: Design and Analysis, New Haven, USA
Austrian Society of Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry, Salzburg, Austria
International Congress of Mathematicians, Barcelona, Spain
Keystone Meeting on Human Genetics, Big Sky, Montana, USA
Genetic Analysis: Model Organisms to Human Biology, San Diego, USA
2005
Copy Number Variation Workshop, Hinxton, UK
8th International SNP Meeting, Leicester, UK
Gordon Research Conference, Human Genetics and Genomics, Newport, Rhode Island
Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Bormio, Italy
2004
Takeda Science Foundation Symposium, Tokyo, Japan
Keystone Meeting on Human Genetics, Breckenridge, Colorado
RECOMB Satellite meeting on Haplotypes, Pittsburgh
2003
Gordon Research Conference, Human Genetics and Genomics, Waterville, Maine
2002
DIMACS workshop on Computational Methods for SNPs and Haplotype Inference, Rutgers, New Jersey
5th International SNP Meeting, Reykjavik, Iceland
Opening Lecture 16th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Australia, Canberra
5th International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Venice, Italy
2001
Forum Lectures, 23rd European Meeting of Statisticians, Funchal, Madeira
2000
Bernoulli Lecture, 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, 63rd Annual Meeting of the IMS, Guanajuato, Mexico
1999
Forensic Human Identification in the Millennium, London
Mathematical Problems Arising from Biology, NATO ASI, Toronto
Inherited Disorders and their Genes in Different European Populations, III, Obernai, France
1998
Probability: Theory and Applications, Nottingham, UK
Inherited Disorders and their Genes in Different European Populations, Maratea, Italy
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[*] These are now termed “Institute Medallion Lectures”
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