Thomas Nichols PhD

Thomas Nichols is a Professor and Head of Neuroimaging Statistics at the Applied Neuroimaging Lab, holding a joint position between WMG and the Department of Statistics. Before joining the University of Warwick in August he was the Director of Modelling and Genetics at the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Imaging Centre at Hammersmith Hospital in London, where he worked on statistical methods for fMRI in the context of clinical trials, and integrating genetic data into brain image analyses. Before coming to the UK he was an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, and in 2001 received his Ph.D. in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University where he also trained in cognitive neuroscience. He has been active in the field of functional neuroimaging since 1992, when he joined the University of Pittsburgh's PET Center as a programmer and statistician