Contact

Department of Statistical Science,
UCL,
1-19 Torrington Place,
London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Room 129
Tel: (+44 20) 7679 1698
email-address: chrish (at) stats.ucl.ac.uk
Department of Statistical Science, Director of Studies

Previous places of work

University of Hamburg, Faculty of Mathematics, Center of Mathematical Stochastics (student 1986-1989, 1991-1993, assistant and PhD student/Doktorand 1993-1997, assistant, postdoc 1997-2001, 2003-2005)
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Mathematics, Seminar for Statistics (assistant, postdoc 2001-2003)
University of Dortmund, Faculty of Statistics (student 1989-1991)
Bochumer Arbeitsgruppe für Sozialen Konstruktivismus und Wirklichkeitsprüfung (not really a place of work, but I had the honor to contribute some papers and ideas to this wonderful website - German language only, sorry!)

Research

Areas of interest: multivariate analysis (especially clustering and classification); robust statistics; model selection; simulation and bootstrap; explorative and graphical data analysis; philosophical background of statistics, probability and data analysis; didactics.
Current projects: PhD project suggestions
Please contact me if you want to work on a PhD project, you are interested in any of the ideas below, or of you have research ideas that fit into my research interests. I do not normally have personal funding available but there are a number of possibilities to get a PhD project funded (although most of them are very competitive).
Current PhD students Former PhD students AG DANK:
I am chair of the Working Group Data Analysis and Numerical Classification (AG DANK) of the German classification society.

Software

My add-on packages fpc (flexible procedures for clustering), prabclus (clustering presence-absence data), smoothmest (smoothing M-estimators for 1-d location) and trimkmeans (trimmed k-means) for the R-statistical software are available from R home/CRAN. My software page
Papers and publications.

Teaching

2012/2013 term 2: STATG018/3005/M018 Factorial Experimentation.