title: Paul Fearnhead
text: # Paul Fearnhead
  
  Paul Fearnhead is Professor of Statistics at Lancaster University. He is a researcher in computational statistics, in particular Sequential Monte Carlo methods. His interests include sampling theory and genetics – he has published several papers working on the epidemiology of campylobacter by looking at recombination events in a large sample of genomes. Since January 2018 he has been the editor of Biometrika.
  
  ## Awards
  
  Fearnhead won the Adams Prize in 2007.
  
  In 2007 he also won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society.
  
  