He is also an affiliate member of the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton. His research interests include: Bayesian computation, demographic forecasting, functional time series analysis and nonparametric functional regression. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. For more details on the featured blog post, refer to the working paper 41 of the ESRC Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton. This article has been published in 2016 at the International Journal of Forecasting, 32(3), 629-649.