Richard Nickl
Richard Nickl (born 13 June 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and currently Professor of Mathematical Statistics [1][2] at the University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge.
Richard Nickl | |
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Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
He grew up in Vienna, attended secondary school at the Theresianum there (graduating in 1998) and obtained his academic degrees from the University of Vienna, including a PhD in 2005.[3] He has made contributions to various areas of mathematical statistics, including non-parametric and high-dimensional inference and empirical process theory.[4] Jointly with Evarist Giné, he is the author of the monograph `Mathematical foundations of infinite-dimensional statistical models',[5] published with Cambridge University Press, which won the 2017 PROSE Award in the mathematics category.[6] He has been awarded the 2017 Ethel Newbold Prize of the Bernoulli Society and in 2015 was a recipient of a Consolidator Grant Award[7] by the European Research Council.
Selected publication
- Evarist Giné & Richard Nickl, Mathematical foundations of infinite-dimensional statistical models, Cambridge University Press (2016)