Sir Peter James Donnelly was born on 15 May 1959 and is an Australian-British mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford, and the CEO of Genomics PLC.
14 Facts About Peter Donnelly
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Peter Donnelly is a specialist in applied probability and has made contributions to coalescent theory.
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Peter James Donnelly was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of financial adviser, economic theorist and author Austin Donnelly and Sheila Donnelly.
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Peter Donnelly is the brother of Sharon Donnelly and of eminent Australian financier, funds manager and company director Melda Donnelly.
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Peter Donnelly was educated at St Joseph's Christian Brothers College, Gregory Terrace, and later at the University of Queensland and at Balliol College, Oxford.
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When elected to a chair at Queen Mary College, London in 1988 Donnelly was only 29.
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Peter Donnelly held a chair at the University of Chicago and was head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2001.
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Peter Donnelly is a fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Peter Donnelly has acted as an expert witness on forensic science in criminal trials.
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Peter Donnelly is noted for his collaborative work with biologists.
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Peter Donnelly has been heavily involved in a number of large scale projects, such as the International HapMap Project and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, a genome-wide association study.
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In 2015, Peter Donnelly was elected as Chairman of the Royal Society's Machine Learning Working Group.
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Peter Donnelly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006 and elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008.
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Peter Donnelly was knighted in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the understanding of human genetics in disease.