Dr. David Steinsaltz

Biography

David Steinsaltz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. He completed his PhD in probability theory at Harvard University in 1996, under the supervision of Persi Diaconis. Before joining Oxford, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley for six and a half years, and has also worked at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, as well as stints at the Technical University of Delft and the Technical University of Berlin. His research focuses on stochastic processes, specifically on random dynamical systems, biodemography, and survival analysis. Steinsaltz is particularly interested in biological demographic questions connected to aging and mortality. He is engaged in improving the probability-theory machinery that underlies theoretical analyses of evolution and aging, and is developing statistical methods to integrate experiments with theories in these domains. His current interests are increasingly centered on Bayesian methods for analyzing longitudinal data and the genetic determinants of human life history traits, as well as the fundamental questions of stochastic processes and their applications to population dynamics in random environments.

Research Interests