Rate My Professor Adrian Baddeley

Adrian Baddeley is John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Curtin University. One of Australia's leading researchers in statistical science, he develops new methodologies for spatial data and image data analysis. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the Australian National University in 1976 and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1980. His extensive career includes Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge (1979-1982), Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Bath (1982-1985), Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics in Sydney (1985-1988), Research Group Leader at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam (1988-1994), Adjunct Professor at the University of Leiden (1991-1996), Professor of Statistics at the University of Western Australia (1994-2010) where he served as Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (1998-2000), Research Scientist at CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics (2010-2013), DORA Fellow at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia (2013-2014), and Professor of Computational Statistics at Curtin University since 2015.

Professor Baddeley's research specializations encompass spatial statistics, stochastic geometry, stereology, and statistical computing. He is the main author and maintainer of the spatstat R package for spatial point pattern analysis. Key publications include 'Spatstat: An R Package for Analyzing Spatial Point Patterns' (Journal of Statistical Software, 2005, with Rolf Turner), the book 'Spatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R' (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2015, with Ege Rubak and Rolf Turner), and 'Estimation of surface area from vertical sections' (Journal of Microscopy, 1986, with H.J.G. Gundersen and L.M. Cruz-Orive). His influence is recognized through awards such as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2000), Hannan Medal (2001), Centenary Medal (2001), Pitman Medal (2004), Australian Mathematical Society Medal (1995), and John Curtin Distinguished Professor Award (2016). He has held leadership roles including Chair of the Committee on Geometrical Statistics for the International Society for Stereology (1983-1985) and delivered the Matherson Lecturer (2008).