Peter Guttorp

Prof. Guttorp is a Guest Researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center, and Affiliate Professor of Statistics at Simon Fraser University. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980, and an honorary doctorate in Engineering from the University of Lund in 2009. Dr. Guttorp specializes in stochastic models in environmental sciences, hematology, atmospheric sciences, geophysics and population biology. He has published extensively both in the statistical and the scientific literature, is the sole author of two monographs on statistical inference for stochastic processes: Statistical Inference for Branching Processes (Wiley, 1991) and Stochastic Modeling of Scientific Data (Chapman & Hall, 1995), section editor for space-time models in Encyclopedia of Environmetrics(Wiley, 2001), and co-editor of Statistics in the Environmental and Earth Sciences (with Andrew Walden; Arnold, 1992) and of Handbook in Spatial Statistics (with Alan Gelfand, Peter Diggle and Montserrat Fuentes; Wiley, 2010). He is co-Editor-in-chief for Environmetrics. Prof. Guttorp served on the SRP until Summer 2015.