David Balding PhD

David Balding is a Professor of Statistical Genomics and MIG Director at the University of Melbourne. After an undergraduate degree at Newcastle (NSW) and Ph.D. at Oxford (UK), both in Mathematics, David worked on developing and applying maths/stats methods in population, evolutionary, medical and forensic genetics. He was based in departments of Mathematics, Statistics, Epidemiology & Public Health, and Genetics, at universities in and around London, before returning to Australia in November 2014 where he is joint between BioSciences and Mathematics & Statistics.