Kim Kenobi
Aberystwyth University
Welsh Crucible 2024
Kim obtained a PhD in Statistical Shape Analysis from the University of Nottingham in 2007. After working in the Graduate School in Nottingham for a year training PhD students in transferrable skills, he worked for a year as a statistics lecturer before completing six and a half years as a statistics postdoc on a multidisciplinary plant biology project, the Centre for Plant Integrative Biology. He took up a statistics lectureship in Aberystwyth University in 2014, with the position being created alongside a new MSc programme in Statistics for Computational Biology. Between 2019 and 2023 he worked on the Wales-Ireland project ECHOES looking at the distribution of overwintering Curlew between 2003 and 2019 across Britain and Ireland. Kim is keen to explore the application of statistical shape analysis to understanding evolutionary and embryological patterns in vertebrates, as well as contributing to climate change and biodiversity research in Wales and beyond.