Professor Simon Tavaré

Professor Simon Tavaré spent 25 years in academia in the US before returning to the UK in 2003, where he is a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include computational biology, statistics and inference for stochastic processes, particularly approximate Bayesian computation. Since 2013 he has been Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, where his research group focuses on statistical bioinformatics and cancer evolution.

Simon will lead the statistical analysis aspects of the Grand Challenge project.