Professor Chris Holmes, The Alan Turing Institute’s Programme Director for Health and Medical Science, and Professor of Biostatistics in Genomics at the Department of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, will co-lead a new Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Lab.
This will be a transparent, independent, research group working through collaboration between the national Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC), The Alan Turing Institute, and the Royal Statistical Society – focussed on areas of national priority. Further information can be found here.
Applications for postgraduate study are now open for 2027–28 entry
Postgraduate study at Oxford Statistics offers the chance to work across a broad range of research, from statistical theory and methodology, probability and machine learning to applications in areas including genetics, epidemiology, computational biology, finance and the social sciences.
Tom Rainforth awarded full Professorial title
Tom Rainforth has been awarded the title of Professor of Statistics and, as of 1 September 2026, is also a Fellow of Jesus College.
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