Ben LambertCV

Somerville collegeOX2 6HD

UKB ben.lambert@some.ox.ac.uk

Í www.ben-lambert.com

PhD thesistitle Understanding mosquito vectors, and methods for their control.

supervisors Prof. Charles Godfray, Dr Ace North.location Department of Zoology, Oxford University.

Other research activitiesshort project Modelling the developing kidney with a cellular automaton model, supervised by

Prof. Helen Byrne.evolutionary

biologyEvolution of artefacts in a cultural market, jointly with Prof. Armand Leroi atImperial College.

epidemiology Inferring anopheles mosquito population parameters using infrared spectroscopy andmachine learning, jointly with Dr Tom Churcher at Imperial College.

Authoring textbook on Bayesian statisticstitle Dreaming in Bayes: a comprehensive guide to Bayesian statistics, Sage publishing.

forthcoming August, 2016

Producing online lecture series on econometrics and Bayesianstatistics

what Published over 500 videos on econometrics and Bayesian statistics.impact Over 4 million unique views worldwide.

Education2008

2010MPhil, University of Cambridge, Distinction.Thesis on the empirical relationship between terrorism and religion.

20032007

MPhys, University of Oxford, 1st class degree.Thesis on simulating DNA nanostructures using the Ising model.

Conferences, talks and mediaMMEE, Paris Mathematical modelling in ecology and evolution. Estimating Anopheline age

through a Bayesian meta-analysis, July 2013.MathCompEpi,

SicilyDo Anopheles undergo senescence? August-September, 2013

BBC4documentary

Researching and being filmed as part of a documentary looking into the evolutionof popular music, February 2016.

FinancialTimes article

Discussed in an article, ’Are Moocs the perfect drug?’ September 2015.

EEID, Oxford Evolutionary ecology of infectious diseases group. Using spectroscopy and machinelearning to estimate mosquito population parameters, December 2015.

Inferencegroup, Oxford

Bayesian hierarchical modelling, November 2015.

Presentedposter

DTC symposium Oxford, February 2016.

Awards{ Awarded the DTC Public Engagement award, 2015. Based on my econometricsand Bayesian statistics online lecture courses.

{ Mary Somerville scholar, 2005-2007.

TeachingLecturing DPhil course in applied Bayesian inference. Across all MPLS, in Trinity 2016. All

syllabus and materials produced by me.Graduate

tutorMPhil econometrics courses at Oxford.

Undergraduatetutor

Economics courses (econometrics, micro and game theory); Applied mathematicsand statistics.

Experience20102013

GDM Digital, and Havas Media (advertising companies), Manager.Responsible for organising statistical analyses of advertising campaigns. The work entailedgaining familiarity in machine learning, as well as Bayesian statistics.

ConsultancyMarketingQED,

LondonAnalysed their proprietary statistical software, and provided consultancy for newstatistical products being launched, 2014-2016.

Sagepublications,

London

Produced video lectures on ANOVA, and other statistical techniques.

ReferencesProf. Charles GodfrayDepartment of ZoologyOxford UniversityB charles.godfray@zoo.ox.ac.ukProf. Armand LeroiFaculty of Natural SciencesImperial College, LondonB a.leroi@imperial.ac.ukDr Thomas ChurcherFaculty of MedicineImperial College, LondonB thomas.churcher@imperial.ac.uk

Prof. Helen ByrneMathematical InstituteOxford UniversityB helen.byrne@maths.ox.ac.ukDr Ace NorthDepartment of ZoologyOxford UniversityB ace.north@zoo.ox.ac.uk