Stephen Peter "Steve" Brooks is Executive Director of Select Statistical Services Ltd,^[2] a statistical research consultancy company based in Exeter, and former professor of statistics at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.^[3]

He received a degree in mathematics from Bristol University in 1991, and a master's degree in statistics from the University of Kent. He received his PhD at Cambridge; his supervisor was Gareth Roberts. Post-graduation he then returned to Bristol as a lecturer in the Statistics Group and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. In 2000 Brooks returned to Cambridge first as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.^[4] and then of Wolfson College.^[5]

He is a specialist in Markov chain Monte Carlo and applied statistical methods.

He is one of the founding directors^[6] of the National Centre for Statistical Ecology^[7] which was set up in 2005.

He left Cambridge in 2006 to become Director of Research for ATASS Sports and is now executive director of Select Statistical Services Ltd a statistical consultancy firm based in Exeter and the Director of the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its Applications^[8]

Career

• 1989–1991 Undergraduate, University of Bristol
• 1991–1992 Graduate Student, University of Kent
• 1992–1993 Research Associate, University of Kent
• 1993–1996 Research Student, University of Cambridge
• 1996–1999 Lecturer, University of Bristol
• 1999–2000 Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey
• 2000–2002 Lecturer, University of Cambridge
• 2002–2005 Reader, University of Cambridge^[9]
• 2005–2008 Professor, University of Cambridge^[10]
• 2006–2011 Director of Research ATASS^[11]
• 2011-Executive Director Select Statistical Services Ltd

Degrees and Qualifications

• 1991 BSc Mathematics, Bristol
• 1992 MSc Statistics, Kent
• 1996 PhD, Cambridge
• 1999 Chartered Statistician
• 2011 Chartered Scientist

Honours and awards

• 2005 Royal Statistical Society's Guy medal in Bronze^[12]
• 2004 Philip Leverhulme Prize^[13]
• 1999 Royal Statistical Society's Research prize

Books

1. Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo edited by Steve Brooks, Andrew Gelman, Galin Jones and Xiao-Li Meng; Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011^[14]
2. Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology by Ruth King, Olivier Gimenez, Byron Morgan and Steve Brooks; Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2009^[15]