Adrian John Baddeley (born May 25, 1955) is a statistical scientist working in the fields of

spatial statistics Spatial analysis or spatial statistics includes any of the formal techniques which studies entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techniques, many still in their early deve ...

,A. Baddeley, E. Rubak and R.Turner, "Spatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R", Chapman and Hall/CRC Press 2015. statistical computing,

stereology Stereology is the three-dimensional interpretation of two-dimensional cross section (geometry), cross sections of materials or tissues. It provides practical techniques for extracting quantitative information about a three-dimensional material from ...

A. Baddeley and E.B. Vedel Jensen, ''Stereology for Statisticians'', Chapman and Hall/CRC Press 2005. and

stochastic geometry In mathematics, stochastic geometry is the study of random spatial patterns. At the heart of the subject lies the study of random point patterns. This leads to the theory of spatial point processes, hence notions of Palm conditioning, which exten ...

Life and career

Baddeley was born in Melbourne, Australia and educated at

Eltham High School Eltham High School is a secondary school in Victoria, Australia. It is located in Eltham, a suburb which is north-east from Melbourne. The school has 'free dress' policy and is the only non-uniform secondary school in the Eltham area. Eltham ...

there, and studied mathematics and statistics at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

(honours supervisor: Roger Miles) and the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

(PhD supervisor:

David George Kendall David George Kendall FRS (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007) was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory. He spent most of his academic life ...

). He was elected a Junior Research Fellow at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

in the second year of his PhD. Subsequently, he worked for the

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

(1982–85), the

CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentar ...

Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney (1985–88), the

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica The (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research centre in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Cou ...

, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1988–94), the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

(where he was Professor of Statistics from 1994 to 2010),

Division of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Perth (2010-2012), and the Centre for Exploration Targeting at the

(2013-2014). He is now Professor of Computational Statistics at

Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

Research

Stereology

Classical methods of

were limited by the requirement that the cutting plane be randomly oriented. Baddeley developed an alternative technique in which the cutting plane is `vertical' (parallel to a fixed axis, or perpendicular to a fixed surface) making it possible to apply quantitative microscopy to cylindrical core samples, samples of flat materials, and longitudinal sections. Baddeley is a leading advocate of statistical ideas in stereology. With Cruz-Orive he demonstrated the role of the Horvitz-Thompson weighting principle and the Rao-Blackwell theorem in stereological sampling.

Spatial statistics

Baddeley is one of the world leading specialists in

point pattern analysis Point pattern analysis (PPA) is the study of ''point patterns'', the spatial arrangements of points in space (usually 2-dimensional space). The simplest formulation is a set ''X'' = where ''D'', which can be called the 'study region,' is a subset ...

, a connection of stochastics and geometry applied to the analysis of (mainly) 2D point distributions in

euclidean space Euclidean space is the fundamental space of geometry, intended to represent physical space. Originally, that is, in Euclid's Elements, Euclid's ''Elements'', it was the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, but in modern mathematics ther ...

. He has developed statistical methodologies for analyzing the structure of spatial patterns of points, including methods based on survival analysis, nonparametrics, new point process models, model-fitting principles (i.e. 'regression analysis' for point patterns) and algorithms and open-source software.A. Baddeley and R. Turner. Spatstat: an ''R'' package for analyzing spatial point patterns. ''Journal of Statistical Software'' 12(6):1-42, 2005. www.jstatsoft.org

Honors and awards

* Georges Matheron Lecturer (2008) * Pitman Medal (2004) *

Hannan Medal The Hannan Medal in the Mathematical Sciences is awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science to recognize achievements by Australians in the fields of pure mathematics, applied and computational mathematics, and statistical sci ...

(2001) *

Centenary Medal The Centenary Medal is an award which was created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the centenary of the Federation of Australia and to recognise "people who made a contribution to Australian society or go ...

(2001) *Fellow,

Australian Academy of Science The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The academy is modelled after the Royal Soci ...

(elected 2000) *

Australian Mathematical Society Medal The Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) was founded in 1956 and is the national society of the mathematics profession in Australia. One of the Society's listed purposes is to promote the cause of mathematics in the community by representing t ...

(1995) *Prize Research Fellowship,

(1979) *Smith-Knight Prize,

(1979) *University Medal,

(1976) *Statistical Society of Australia Prize,

(1976) *Hanna Neumann Prize for Pure Mathematics,

(1976 and 1975)

References

External links

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