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I am a Senior Lecturer in Probability and Statistics working in the University of Manchester's Department of Mathematics.

Research interests

Distributional approximations and Stein's method, quantitative limit theorems in mathematical statistics, probability

 distributions, networks, special functions.  Further information can be found on my research page.

Biographical sketch

2023- Senior Lecturer in Probability and Statistics, Department of Mathematics, The University of Manchester

2021-2023 Lecturer in Probability and Statistics, Department of Mathematics, The University of Manchester

2016-2021 Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, The University of Manchester

2013-2016 Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Probability and Statistics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford

2013-2016 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

2009-2013 DPhil in Statistics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford (supervised by Gesine Reinert)

2005-2009 MMath in Mathematics, The Queen's College, University of Oxford

PhD students

I am happy to consider strong students interested in working on distributional approximations via Stein's method.

Feel free to send me an email if you would like to know more about my research. Funding is available.

Contact details

Department of Mathematics

The University of Manchester

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9PL

UK

Room: Alan Turing building, room 1.119

Email: robert.gaunt at manchester.ac.uk