Jonathan Marchini
Jonathan Laurence Marchini (born 19 May 1973) is a Bayesian statistician and professor of statistical genomics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, a tutorial fellow in statistics at Somerville College, Oxford and a co-founder and director of Gensci Ltd. He co-leads the Haplotype Reference Consortium. Education. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics from Exeter University from 1991-94. He then obtained a PGCE in Mathematics Education from the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education from 1994-5. He completed his DPhil in the Department of  Statistics at the University of Oxford supervised by Professor Brian Ripley from 1998-2002. Career and research. Marchini spent three years working as a VSO volunteer teaching A-level Mathematics at Tosamaganga Secondary school, near Iringa, Tanzania, between September 1995 and September 1998. From 2002 to 2005 he held a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship in Mathematical Biology, under the supervision of Prof Lon Cardon and Prof Peter Donnelly. In 2006 he was appointed as a university lecturer (associate professor) in statistical genomics in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at Mansfield College . In 2007 he became an affiliated group leader at the Wellcome Trust Center of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. In 2010 he was re-appointed until retirement In 2015 he was promoted to professor of statistical genomics Marchini's research focusses on statistical genetics and population genetics, with a particular emphasis on methods development for genome-wide association studies. He has worked on haplotype estimation, genotype imputation, genotype calling from arrays and sequencing, sparse tensor decomposition for RNA-seq datasets, population structure, phenotype prediction and mixed models, gene-gene interactions and brain imaging genetics. He was a member  of the analysis team for the International HapMap Project, the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium, the 1000 Genomes Project and the UK10K Project. His research group was responsible for the haplotype estimation and genotype imputation for the UK Biobank dataset. He co-leads the Haplotype Reference Consortium. He has been an ISI Highly Cited Researcher from 2014-2018 He has acted as an expert witness in a patent trial Awards. In 2012 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for "leading the way by constructing powerful and ingenious novel statistical methodology for population and medical genetics, together with associated  fast computational algorithms and software."