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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