Professor Alison Etheridge OBE FRS

Professor of Probability

Biographical Sketch

2003-Present - Professor of Probability, University of Oxford

1999-2005 - EPSRC Advanced Fellow, University of Oxford

1997-2012 - University Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Magdalen College

1996-1997 - Reader in Probability and Statistics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

1992 - Neyman Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley

1990-1996 - Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Research Interests

I began graduate work as a student in functional analysis and rapidly became interested in the interface between probability and analysis. Much of my work focuses on infinite dimensional stochastic processes and their applications. Most recently my central interest has been a collection of mathematical problems arising in population genetics.

Publications

Barton, N., Etheridge, A. and Véber, A. (2016) “The infinitesimal model.”
Kelleher, J., Etheridge, A. and McVean, G. (2015) “Efficient coalescent simulation and genealogical analysis for large sample sizes”, PLoS Computational Biology [Preprint].
Etheridge, A. and Labbé, C. (2015) “Scaling limits of weakly asymmetric interfaces”, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 336(1), pp. 287–336.
Etheridge, A. and Labbé, C. (2015) “Scaling limits of weakly asymmetric interfaces”, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 336(1), pp. 287–336.
Kelleher, J. et al. (2015) “Spread of pedigree versus genetic ancestry in spatially distributed populations.”, Theoretical population biology, 108, pp. 1–12.
Kelleher, J., Etheridge, A. and McVean, G. (2015) “Efficient coalescent simulation and genealogical analysis for large sample sizes.”
Kelleher, J., Etheridge, A. and Barton, N. (2014) “Coalescent simulation in continuous space: algorithms for large neighbourhood size.”, Theoretical population biology, 95, pp. 13–23.
Barton, N. et al. (2013) “Genetic hitchhiking in spatially extended populations.”, Theoretical population biology, 87, pp. 75–89.
Barton, N. et al. (2013) “Inference in two dimensions: allele frequencies versus lengths of shared sequence blocks.”, Theoretical population biology, 87, pp. 105–119.
Kelleher, J., Barton, N. and Etheridge, A. (2013) “Coalescent simulation in continuous space.”, Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 29(7), pp. 955–956.

Contact Details

College Affiliation: Fellow by Special Election at Magdalen College

Email:  etheridg@stats.ox.ac.uk

Telephone: +44(0)1865 281244

Office number: 3.07

PA:  Lauren Haynes

Web: https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~etheridg/

Graduate Students

Kimberley Becker

Terence Tsui

Bastian Wiederhold

Adrian Martini

Peter Koepernik

Research Groups

Probability

Statistical Genetics and Epidemiology