JOB ALERT: I am recruiting for a 4-year postdoc position to start in early 2020, to work on a UKRI-funded project: Collective Behaviour of Cognitive Agents. The goal of this fellowship is to use Bayesian inference and decision-making, game theory and strategic artificial intellgence to develop models of social behaviour by rational agents.

I'm a University Academic Fellow in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds, a Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. My research focuses on how humans and animals use information and how we make decisions both individually and collectively. I have a particular interest in collective intelligence and diversity: how do many different individuals come together to create a more intelligent group? What role do incentives an​d group composition play in maximising group performance? What are the difficulties of collective coordination and how can they be overcome? 

I'm also interested in a variety of topics concerned with data analysis, particularly in areas of selection effects and other observational biases. How do we use data to form new knowledge, and how might data mislead us? My statistics research covers areas such as navigation, surgery, criminology, pedagogy and palaeontology.