I am currently an Associate Professor in Bayesian Statistics in the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Exeter. My research interests include the application and development of Bayesian statistical methodology for the study of infectious disease dynamics. I have worked on diseases such as bovine tuberculosis, COVID-19, HIV, Salmonella, avian influenza and chytridiomycosis. Recently I have contributed to methodological advances / applications of methods such as data augmented and pseudo-marginal Markov chain Monte Carlo, Approximate Bayesian Computation, and History Matching with emulation, as ways of calibrating complex epidemic models to partially observed data. I am working on the compartmental modelling side of the BADGER project.
