Biography
I work at BioSS as a mathematical modeller. My theoretical effort has largely focused on population and individual-level dynamic process-based models using and developing a variety of techniques: data augmentation MCMC, particle methods, model and posterior-based proposals, multi-temperature MCMC, novel ABC methods and reliable approaches to model selection. These have allowed me to investigate, amongst other things, the genetic basis for epidemiological traits, disease transmission experiments, disease spread in wild populations and phylodynamic analyses.
I have a keen interest in developing software tools to allow these sophisticated inference techniques to be readily available to the wider scientific audience. Further details can be found on my webpage (https://www.bioss.ac.uk/people/cpooley).
Area of Strategic Research Programme
Iām currently developing numerical tools within the large-scale modelling (LSM) strand.