Professor Robert C. Griffiths FRS

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Work Address:	Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK
Work Phone:	01865 281237 (International: +44 1865 281237)
Work Fax:	01865 272595 (International: +44 1865 272595)
	College Affiliation: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, OX2 6QA
Email:	griff@stats.ox.ac.uk

ACADEMIC RECORD

1967	University of Sydney	Bachelor of Science (Hons)
1970	University of Sydney	PhD in Mathematical Statistics Thesis title: Multivariate distribution theory: infinitely divisible multivariate gamma distributions. Supervisor: Professor G.K. Eagleson
1999	University of Oxford	MA

HONOURS

1993	Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA
2000	Title of Professor of Mathematical Genetics awarded by the University of Oxford.
2010	Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

October 2011-	Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford.
October 2011-	Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall
2000-2011	Professor of Mathematical Genetics, University of Oxford, Titular Professorship awarded from 1st October, 2000.
1998-2011	Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics, Lady Margaret Hall
1989-1998	Reader, Department of Mathematics, Monash University
1979-1988	Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Monash University
1973-1979	Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Monash University
1970-1973	Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University
1968-1969	Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Sydney

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

Jan 2012-June 2012	Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
June 2011-August 2011	Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Dec 1997-Feb 1998	Outside Studies Program, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
Feb-March 1996	Outside Studies Program, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
Jan-March 1992	Outside Studies Program, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
Jan-June 1987	Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
Dec 1983-June 1984	Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia
Sep 1979-Mar 1980	Outside Studies Program, Center for Demographic and Population Genetics, University of Texas, Houston

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Royal Statistical Society

Bernoulli Society

EDITORIAL BOARDS

2003 - 2005	Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Probability
1995 -	Associate Editor, Theoretical Population Biology
1993-1995	Associate Editor, Stochastic Processes and their Applications

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

1992 - 1994	Dr Paul Marjoram
1996 - 1998	Dr Melanie Bahlo
2001 - 2003	Dr Maria De Iorio
2003 - 2008	Dr Dario Spano

SOFTWARE DEVELOPED AND AVAILABLE TO RESEARCHERS

GENETREE

Software for the estimation of mutation, migration and growth rates, and ancestral inference such as the time to the most recent common ancestor of a sample of DNA sequences.

RESEARCH GRANTS

2005-08	EPSRC grant grant of Ł178,882 for a research assistant, contribution to a computing officer's salary, computing equipment, and conference travel for three years. Combinatorial structure of stochastic models in Population Genetics. A Research Assistant, Dr Dario Spano was appointed in January 2005.
2001-04	EPSRC grant of Ł50,000 for a DPhil student and computer equipment for three years. Computationally intensive methods for inference about selection in DNA sequences. A DPhil student, Graham Coop, began in July 2001.
2001-04	BBSRC Biomathematics grant of Ł117,240 for a research assistant, computing equipment, and conference travel for three years. Demographic and ancestral inference from DNA sequences. A Research Assistant, Dr Maria De Iorio, was appointed in October 2001 and resigned in April 2003 to take up a lectureship at Imperial College, London. Dr Dario Spano was appointed to the Research Assistant position in October 2003.
1998	Small Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant: Ancestral inference from DNA sequences under selection. $14,744
1996-98	Large ARC Grant: Statistical analysis and ancestral inference from DNA sequences in a subdivided population. 1996 $55,000; 1997 $52,000; 1998 $53,000; for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow appointment in Mathematical Population Genetics.
1994	Small ARC Grant: A computational method for estimating mutation rates in DNA sequences. $8,900 for a Unix workstation.
1992-94	Large ARC Grant: Mathematical models and analysis of genetical data: DNA sequences and diseases. (With Professor W. J. Ewens and Dr. G. A. Watterson.) 1992 $53,000; 1993 $45,000; 1994 $46,000; for computer equipment and a Postdoctoral appointment in Mathematical Population Genetics.

RECENT INVITED CONFERENCE LECTURES

2011	Probability and Discrete Mathematics in Mathematical Biology, Institute of Mathematics, University of Singapore, (Three seminars) 20th March - 17th April.
2010	Canadian Statistical Society, Quebec, Canada, 23-26 May 2010.
	Simulation of Stochastic Networks, Newton Instutite, Cambridge University, 21-25 June 2010.
	Orthogonal Polynomials, Applications to Statistics and Stochastic Processes, Warwick University, 12-16th July 2010.
	Institute of Mathematical Statistics 73rd meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, 9-13th August 2010.
	Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 34th conference, Osaka, Japan, 6-10th Sept. 2010.
2009	Probabilistic Models of Evolutionary Biology, Luminy, France, 25-29rd May 2009.
	Mathematical Challenges from Molecular Biology and Genetics, BIRS, Banff, Canada, 6-11 Sept, 2009.
2008	Inhomogeneous Random Systems, CNRS, Paris, France, 22-23rd January 2008.
	Frontiers in Mathematical Biology, Erwin Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, 14th-19th April 2008.
	Applications of spatio-temporal dynamical systems in Biology, Nice, France, 18th July-20th July 2008.
	BICS Postgraduate Workshop on Probabilistic Techniques in Population Genetics, Bath University. Five 1.5 hours lectures 8th -11th July 2008.
	Population Genetics and Genomics program, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA, 15-30th September 2008;
2007	Seminar on Stochastic Processes, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, 15th-17th March 2007.
	Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions conference, Luminy, France, 2nd-6th July 2007.
	Main-Kolloquim Stochastic, Frankfurt, Germany, 28th November 2007.
	Erlangen-Muncher 7th Probability Day, Erlangen, Germany, 30th November 2007.
2006	Workshop on Mathematical Population Genetics, Edinburgh University, 26th-30th March 2006.
	2nd Cornell Probability Summer School, Ithaca, USA, 26th June - 7th July 2006 (6 lectures).
	31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Paris, 17th July - 21st July 2006.
2005	Random Spatial Models meeting, Berlin University, 15-19th March 2005.
	Genetics and Prehistory, a Focus on Islands, Cambridge University, 29th July - 2nd August 2005.
	Mathematical Genetics meeting, Oberwolfach, Germany, 21-27 August 2005.
	Mathematical Biosciences Workshop Columbus Ohio on Phylogeny and Mathematical Genetics, Columbus Ohio 24-30 March 2005.
2004	Durham Symposium on Mathematical Genetics, Durham, UK, 5th-15th July, 2004.
	Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics, Trento, Italy, 21st - 25th June, 2004.
	Statistical Society of Canada Conference, Montreal, Canada, 30th May - 2nd June, 2004.
2003	ESI Workshop on Mathematical Population Genetics and Statistical Physics, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 8-12th December.
	ESI Workshop on Mathematical Population Genetics and Statistical Physics, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 30th January - 21st February. (Two lectures presented.)
2002	7th International Mycological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 11-17th August.
2001	DFG-workshop; Genes, Cells, Populations: Mathematics and Biology, Leipzig, Germany, 17-21st September.
	European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Aarhaus, Denmark, 20-26th August.
2000	Conference on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems, Luminy, France, 13-17th November.
	DNA Polymorhpisms Course, Oulu, Finland, 4-8th October. (Two lectures and two practical sessions presented.)
	Biomathematics workshop, Gothenbourg, Sweden, 9-13th May.
1999	Canadian Mathematics Society Winter Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 11-13th December.
	Symposium on Modern Developments in Theoretical Population Genetics: the Legacy of Gustave Mal?cot, École Normale Sup?rieure, Paris, France, 31st August - 2nd September.
	International Statistical Institute meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 10-18th August.
	NATO Meeting, Mathematical Problems Arising from Biology, held at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematics, Toronto, Canada, June 1999. (Two lectures presented.)
	Belgium/London Mathematical Society meeting, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 14-16th May.
1998	The NATO Human Evolution Meeting, Genes, fossils, and behaviour: an integrated approach to human evolution, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, September 1998.
1997	Stochastics in population genetics and tree reconstruction, DFG-program Interacting stochastic systems of high complexity, Frankfurt, Germany, November 1997.
	First Australian-New Zealand Workshop on Applied Probability, Adelaide, Australia, September 1997.
	National Research Symposium: Statistical Methods in Genome Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July 1997.
1996	The 4th International Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Arizona.
1995	The Branching Processes meeting at the Mathematics Institute, Oberwolfach, Germany.
1993	The Mathematical Population Genetics workshop at the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Minnesota, USA.

INVITED SEMINARS AT UK UNIVERSITIES SINCE 1999

2005	Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College, London 4th March.
2001	Oxford University, Department of Statistics, 22nd November.
2000	University College, London, Department of Statistical Science, 30th November.
	Nottingham University, Department of Statistics, 8th June.
	Cambridge University, Statistical Laboratory, 19th May.
	RSS meeting 15th March. Discussant to paper by M. Stephens and P. Donnelly.
	University of Bristol, Department of Statistics, 18th February.
1999	Sheffield University, Department of Statistics, 28th October.
	Kent University, Department of Statistics, 21st October.
	Reading University, Department of Statistics, 8th October.
	Warwick University, Department of Statistics, 9th June.
	Keele University, Centre for Medical Statistics, 2nd June.
1998	University of Oxford, Department of Statistics, 26th November.

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS AT CONFERENCES SINCE 1999

2003	XXIX Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, VII Brazilian School on Probability, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, 3rd-9th August.
	Royal Statistical Society meeting, London, UK. Discussant to paper by I.A. Wilson, M.E. Weale, and D.J. Balding.
2002	Stochastic Processes and Applications 28th meeting, Melbourne, Australia 1st-5th July.
	Royal Statistical Society meeting, London, UK, 22nd May. Discussant to paper by G. Nicholson, A.V. Smith, F. J?nsson, ?. G?stafsson, K. Stef?nsson and P. Donnelly.
	European Mathematical Genetics meeting 2002, Sheffield, UK, 6-7th April.
2000	MASAMB XI, Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, 4-5th April.
1999	Meeting on Selection in genetically and spatially structured populations, Edinburgh University, UK, 7-10th September.

POSTERS AT CONFERENCES SINCE 2002

2003	EPSRC Life Sciences regional seminar, London, 13th June. De Iorio, M. and Griffiths, R.C. Inference from DNA sequences.
2003	Royal Statistical Society Conference on Statistical Genetics, Hasselt, Belgium, 14-17th July. De Iorio, M. and Griffiths, R.C. The age of a mutation and its frequency spectrum. De Iorio, M. and Griffiths, R.C. Demographic and ancestral inference from DNA sequences. Clark, T.G., De Iorio, M. and Griffiths, R.C. Bayesian logistic regression using a perfect phylogeny.
2002	BBSRC Life Sciences regional workshop, Warwick. De Iorio, M. and Griffiths, R.C. Inference from DNA sequences.
	European Mathematical Genetics meeting 2002, Sheffield, UK, 6-7th April. Clark, T.G., Griffiths, R.C. and Farrall, M. Association between haplotypes and disease: effectiveness of the coalescent approach.

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES

2002-2004	Durham Symposium on Mathematical Genetics to be held 5th-15th July 2004. (With Dr Gilean McVean.)
1990-1994	12th Australian Statistical Society Conference held at Monash University, 1994.

REFEREEING

Advances in Applied Probability	Annals of Applied Probability
Australian Journal of Statistics	Evolution
Genetics	Indian Journal of Mathematics
International Statistical Review	Journal of Applied Probability
Journal of Mathematical Biology	Journal of Molecular Evolution
Journal of Multivariate Analysis	Journal of the American Statistical Association
Sankhya	Stochastic Processes and their Applications
Theoretical Population Biology	Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

DPhil, MPhil, PhD and MSc theses for Macquarie, Melbourne, Monash, La Trobe, RMIT and Oxford Universities

Grant applications for the Australian Research Council (ARC), USA National Science Foundation (NSF), UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1998-1999, 2004-5	Examiner, MSc in Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1999-2002, 2005	Chairman of Examiners, MSc in Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1998-	Member of Governing Body, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
2003-	Member of Finance Committee, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Jul-Dec 1997	Deputy Head, Mathematics Department, Monash University.
1989-1991	Head of the Statistics Section, Mathematics Department, Monash University.
1990-1994	Chair of the 12th Australian Statistical Society Conference held at Monash University, 1994.
1986, 1993-94	Member of the Council of the Victorian Statistical Society.
1993-1994	Central Council member of the Australian Statistical Society.
1989-1991	Associate Director of the DEET Key-Center of Statistical Sciences, (Monash, La Trobe, Melbourne and RMIT Universities, Victoria, Australia).
1977-79, 1993-94	Member of Faculty Board, Faculty of Science, Monash University.

TEACHING AT MONASH UNIVERSITY 1973-1998

Many courses taught in the areas of mathematical statistics, applied probability and
mathematical methods from 1st year to honours level.

TEACHING AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY 1999-

Master of Applied Statistics courses in:	Statistical Inference
	Experimental Design
	Case Studies in Statistics
MMath Mathematics c course in Mathematical Genetics
Doctoral Training Centre course in Statistics
Second year level course in Graph Theory

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