Postgraduate Students
Postgraduate Researcher (CHICAS)
Lydiane Agier is studying for a PhD, supervised by Prof. Peter Diggle. Her main interest is to develop and apply statistical methods for spatio-temporal data related to tropical diseases, with a main focus on meningococcal meningitis. Prior to starting her PhD in Lancaster Medical School in October 2009, she completed a MSc in statistics in France, and worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva on meningitis and for the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis in Oslo on plague.
Postgraduate Researcher (CHICAS)
Nicola Reeve is studying for a PhD, supervised by Prof. Peter Diggle, Dr Tom Fanshawe and Dr Tom Keegan. The topic area of her PhD is spatial statistics for environmental epidemiology. Before starting her PhD in Lancaster Medical School in October 2010, she completed an MSc in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University.
Postgraduate Researcher (CHICAS)
Irene Larbi is studying for a PhD, supervised by Prof. Peter Diggle, on an ESRC-funded project. Her work focuses on the development of advanced statistical methods of spatial and longitudinal analysis, and their application to the social and environmental epidemiology of schistosomiasis in Ghana. Prior to starting her PhD in Lancaster in October 2011, Irene completed an MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and worked as a research assistant at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana.
Postgraduate Researcher (CHICAS)
Kamarul Imran Musa is studying for a PhD, supervised by Dr Tom Keegan and Prof. Peter Diggle. The topic area of his PhD is spatial statistics for stroke incidence and stroke outcome in Malaysia. Before starting his PhD in Lancaster Medical School in November 2011, he obtained an MD degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia, and a Masters degree in Community Medicine (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from the same university. He has worked as a medical doctor and currently is the senior medical lecturer at the Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His main research interests are in the application of epidemiological and statistical methods to chronic diseases, and he has worked with different groups of researchers in studying diabetes mellitus, cancer and stroke in Malaysia.
Postgraduate Researcher (CHICAS)
Özgür Asar is currently a PhD student, supervised by Prof. Peter Diggle. He is mainly working on longitudinal statistical methods, with applications in the biomedical and health sciences. Before joining the Lancaster Medical School in October 2012, he received an MS degree in Statistics from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey, where he was also affiliated as a research and teaching assistant.
Postgraduate Researcher (CHICAS)
Emanuele Giorgi is studying for a PhD supervised by Prof. Peter Diggle, Dr Anja Terlouw (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) and Prof. Sarah O'Brien (Institute of Global Health and Infection, University of Liverpool). He is developing statistical methods to combine data from different sources of quality, such as 'opportunistic' samples. One of the main applications of his project is malaria mapping in Chikwawa District in Malawi. Before starting his PhD in October 2012, he completed an MSc in Statistics in the Department of Statistical Sciences of University of Padova in Italy, where he worked on the development of multivariate skew-elliptical models under the supervision of Adelchi Azzalini.
Postgraduate Researcher (BLS/CHICAS)
John Birdsall is studying for a PhD, supervised by Dr Dave Clancy and Prof. Peter Diggle. The focus of John's project is to find candidate genes involved in ageing using the model organism Drosophila melanogaster by utilising genetic techniques and statistically analysing microarray data. Before joining Lancaster University in August 2011, John studied genetics at the University of Manchester.