Professor Christl Donnelly, Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Statistics, has been elected a Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences as part of its inaugural cohort.

Professor Pier Palamara has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant as part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme

Professor Dame Alison Etheridge, Professor of Probability in the Department of Statistics, has been recognised with a Doctor of Science (DSc) from Heriot-Watt University.

Applications for the Department of Statistics' Summer Research Internships Programme 2026 open today.

The Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford is now welcoming applications for our DPhil (PhD) in Statistics and StatML CDT.

The Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome Yaxuan Ju from China as part of the third cohort of Optiver Foundation Scholars who have just begun their studies at Oxford. 

A new open-source toolkit from Oxford’s Department of Statistics makes it easier for researchers to analyse the 3D structures of T-cell receptors, key molecules in the immune system and cancer therapy.

Artificial intelligence models that promise to accelerate antibody drug development are falling short when put to rigorous tests, according to recent research from the Department of Statistics’ Oxford Protein Informatics Group.

Peter’s passing in September 2025 is a great loss to his friends and colleagues. He was a respected and widely admired statistician whose work drew on ideas from chemistry, physics and computer science.