David Joseph Balding FAA

   In an excellent day for our field, 1 of the 22
new Australian Academy of Science fellows announced
today

       https://www.science.org.au/

have been elected in recognition of his research
in Statistics are related areas.

   David Balding was born and raised in Kiama, New South Wales.
He earnt a bachelor degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia,
and a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
He is currently Professor of Statistical Genomics and Director
of Melbourne Integrative Genomics at the University of Melbourne.
 
   Professor Balding has made wide-ranging applications of statistics
to the biological sciences. He is co-developer of the Balding-Nichols
match probability formulae that allow for population genetic effects in
the evaluation of DNA profile evidence, and author of the likeLTD software
for profiles obtained from low DNA template and/or degraded samples. He is
co-proposer of the Balding-Nichols model for simulation of genetic data from
structured populations and for likelihood-based inferences from structured
population data. He is a pioneer of computational methods for inferring
demographic history and detecting the effects of selection, and has made
important contributions to methods for genetic association analyses.

   Congratulations to David.

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  Matt Wand, PhD FAA,  Distinguished Professor of Statistics        
  School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences,                                  
  University of Technology Sydney,   e-mail: matt.wand@uts.edu.au    
  P.O. Box 123,                      web-sites: matt-wand.utsacademics.info
  Broadway, NSW 2007,                           works.bepress.com/matt_wand
  AUSTRALIA                                     www.uts.edu.au/staff/matt.wand
                                     phone: +61 2 9514 2240 
                                     skype: matt.wand    

  Chief investigator, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence
                      for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers
                      (www.acems.org.au)
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