I am the Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in the University of Galway, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and former Head of the Biostatistics Unit of thea target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.nuigalway.iehrbcrfg HRB Clinical Research Facility, NUI Galway ,I am a member of the NUI Galway a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:sonrai.shinyapps.ioSonrai_Research_ClusterSonraí Health Data Science Research Cluster ,a group of researchers and students interested in the development and application of statistical and computational methods to clinical and molecular biological data.My primary areas of research in Biostatistics are in the theory and application of statistical methods in clinical trials of health service and population health interventions and in the development of novel analytic approaches in Sports and Exercise Science. My research interests include statistical modelling, statistical computing, design and analysis of cluster randomised trials, smoothing techniques and derivative estimation, survival analysis, tree based classification problems and biostatistics in elite sports.

Biostatistics is unique in that it is a key component to all clinical research areas, but especially in population health and health services research, and involves collaboration with researchers in numerous disciplines (e.g. clinical research, health economics, clinical psychology). My primary areas of research in Biostatistics and Data Science are i) in the theory and application of statistical methods in clinical trials of health service interventions, ii) the design and analysis of observational studies in population health, iii) in translational statistics and iv) applications of statistics in sports and exercise science.My research interests include statistical modelling, statistical computing, data science, design and analysis of cluster randomised trials, smoothing techniques and derivative estimation, survival analysis involving dependent observations, tree based classification problems and sports analytics.