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Dr Robert Cope

Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law; School of Science and Technology

Biography

Robert is an applied statistician / data scientist, primarily interested in using data to solve complex problems in the biological sciences. He completed his PhD in 2014 at the University of Queensland, where he used genetic data to estimate how often dugongs move between different habitat patches. Subsequently he worked at the University of Adelaide analysing data around the transport of invasive species, and the spread of epidemics; and then in the Biological Data Science Institute at the Australian National University before moving to UNE. His recent work has focussed on data assimilation and computational methods/approximations for stochastic models of disease dynamics. Robert enjoys helping practitioners develop the skills to wrangle, visualise and analyse their data.

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