Christl Donnelly

CBE FMedSci FRS

Head of Department, Professor of Applied Statistics

Biographical Sketch

2018 – present	Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
2002 – present	Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Imperial College London
2000 – 2002	Reader in Epidemiological Statistics, Imperial College London
1995 – 2000	Head of Statistics Unit (Reader in Statistical Epidemiology in 2000), Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, University of Oxford
1998 – 2000	Lecturer in Biology, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
1992 – 1995	Lecturer in Statistics, University of Edinburgh

Research Interests

Pandemic-risk-related behaviour change in England from June 2020 to March 2022: REACT-1 study among over 2 million people
Steyn N. et al, (2025)
Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics
Kraemer MUG. et al, (2025), Nature, 638, 623 - 635
Asymmetric limits on timely interventions from noisy epidemic data
Parag KV. et al, (2025)
The Mathematics of Serocatalytic Models with applications to public health data
Kamau E. et al, (2025)
Bayesian Inference of Phylogenetic Distances: Revisiting the Eigenvalue Approach.
Penn MJ. et al, (2025), Bulletin of mathematical biology, 87

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