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 CSIRO researcher Pavel Shevchenko (right) with his visitor, Mario Wuethrich of ETH Zurich |
For more information about these opportunities please contact Dr Frank de Hoog, Research Director.
The Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics Visitor Programme is designed to support visits from researchers for significant research collaboration activities. Visits can be from two weeks to six months in duration. In addition, there is a Distinguished Visitors scheme to provide additional funding for visitors of high international standing who have a long track record of influential contributions to a field, evidenced through publications and citations.
Some recent visitors to CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics have included:
Dr Mario Wuethrich, senior researcher at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), visited CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics in July-August 2007 to continue collaborative research in the area of financial risk management. ETH Zurich is a science and technology institute with an outstanding research record.
Dr Wuethrich visited CSIRO to continue work on the development of a statistical framework for modelling operational risk, collaborating with CSIRO’s Dr Pavel Shevchenko. Operational risk is a new risk category that should be quantified by banks to comply with the new Basel II regulations, the Revised International Capital Framework. There is no widely accepted operational risk modelling framework to comply with these regulations, and it is hoped that this collaboration will lead to a successful approach.
Dr Ver Hoef is a statistician at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Association (NOAA) National Marine Mammal Lab (NMML). Dr Ver Hoef is
internationally renowned for his research in environmental and spatial
statistics and has a proven track record in spatial and temporal modelling,
animal movement models, and Bayesian statistics.
Dr Ver Hoef made a significant contribution to a number of activities of CSIRO’s
Environmental Informatics group during his visit in 2007 and helped to identify
and guide future research directions. These included spatial models for river
networks, optimal model-based survey designs for monitoring aquatic resources,
and zero-inflated count models for environmental applications.
During his visit to CSIRO, Dr Ver Hoef also contributed to important discussions
held with key Australian organisations involved in water resource management,
contributing his expertise and advising on scientific direction for the group.
This included discussion of innovative methodologies for enhancing the
monitoring and modelling of water resources and methods for analysing wildlife
data from the Antarctic division.
Dr Hedley is a well recognised expert on cetacean survey design and analysis
and, before recently setting up a private consultancy, was a member of the
Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM) at the
University of St Andrews (Scotland), the world centre for distance sampling.
Dr Hedley has been an active invited expert in the International Whaling
Commission for many years and has exceptional expertise in designing line
transect surveys using distance-sampling techniques.
Dr Hedley’s visit was an essential component of the expansion of CSIRO’s
engagement with the Australian Government Antarctic Division (AGAD). The visit
had the objectives of planning the execution and data analysis of a proposed
aerial survey for whales in icy Antarctic waters; providing mentoring to
researchers on analytical and practical aspects of line transect surveys for
estimating whale abundance; and progressing joint work between Dr Hedley and
CSIRO on spatial modelling of whale distribution from line transect data.
Associate Professor Don Stevens is a member of the Department of Statistics
at the Oregon State University, USA and is an internationally recognised
authority on sampling design for large-scale environmental monitoring programs.
Dr Stevens’ research in spatial design of natural resources is widely published
in the statistics and environmental literature so he was well placed to assist
in developing the skills of our researchers, provide advice in relation to some
of our current and future research projects, and to help identify future
research topics in the spatial design area.
Dr Stevens also hosted professional development sessions to familiarise CSIRO
researchers with one of his most important research outcomes, the development of
the generalised random-tessellation stratified (GRTS) design for selecting a
spatially-balanced sample of a natural resource. This design approach has
attractive features which will improve on current approaches to sampling of
aquatic resources, particularly when there is widespread ephemerality.
CSIRO offers PhD graduates an opportunity to work with leaders in the field of mathematical and information science while enjoying generous personal development and learning opportunities.
Dr Erin Peterson:
developing tools to help understand our landscape resources
Dr Peterson is currently a postdoctoral fellow with CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics , where her skills in the area of environmental statistics
are applied to help understand Australian natural resources.
By completing your doctorate with CSIRO you will have access to world class facilities and be able to work alongside CSIRO scientists.
PhD students at CSIRO are co-supervised by a university, allowing students to maintain and develop their university connections while being exposed to research in a working environment.
Last updated Friday September 17, 2010
