Winthrop Professor Adrian Baddeley is one of Australia's top statisticians.
A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, winner of the Pitman Medal and the Hannan Medal, he is a specialist in statistical ways of interpreting spatial and geometrical information such as microscope images of biological tissue; the spatial arrangement of animals territories, trees in a wood or copper deposits in a mining area; and spatial patterns generated by random accidents such as crystal defects in semiconductors.
If provoked, he will demonstrate principles of spatial statistics by scattering coins or rice across a table or chopping up vegetables in different ways! A very visual thinker, Winthrop Professor Baddeley is also a keen photographer, specialising in underwater photography.
His most highly cited paper is in the Journal of Microscopy (unusual for a statistician). "It could be caricatured as a new way of cutting up vegetables," he said.
Winthrop Professor Baddeley is very keen on statistical computing and on developing software.
