Robert Griffiths

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

2010 Elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society
- Citation: for fundamental contributions to Mathematical Population Genetics in the study of evolutionary stochastic processes, probability distributions of gene frequencies and of genealogical trees. He initiated and developed computational algorithms for full likelihood inference of population genetics parameters from DNA sequences, and ancestral inference, such as finding the time to the most recent common ancestor and ages of mutations in genealogical trees.
2000 Title of Professor of Mathematical Genetics, University of Oxford
1993 Elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA
- Citation: for fundamental contributions to mathematical population genetics, especially in the study of the probability distributions of gene frequencies and of genealogical trees, and for important contributions to statistical multivariate analysis, especially the infinite divisibility of, and orthogonal expansions for, multivariate distributions.

July 2018- Adjunct Professor, Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
August 2018- Teaching Associate, Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
October 2011- Associate member of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
October 2011- Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford
October 2011- Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall
2000 Titular Professor of Mathematical Genetics, University of Oxford
1998 Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
1998 Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
1989 Reader, Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Australia
1979 Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Australia
1973 Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Australia
1970 Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University, Australia
1968 Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Sydney

2017 Visiting Professor, Mathematical Science Institute, ANU
2014 Visiting Professor, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Clay Senior Scholar, Centre de researches mathematiques, Montreal, Canada
2012 Visiting Miller Research Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
2011 Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.
1998, 1996, 1992 Visiting Professor, University of Southern California
1987 Visiting Professor, Mathematics Department, University of Utah
1984 Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
1979 Center for Demographic & Population Genetics, University of Texas, Houston

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