Professor Daniel Williamson

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Daniel is a Bayesian statistician and "Professor of Uncertainty Quantification" in the Land Environment Economics and Policy Institute within the Department of Economics. He has always been interested in decision making under uncertainty, with a particular focus on what uncertainty means (to analyst and decision maker), how to quantify it, how to use it to guide decision makers and when it is ethical to do so. A feature in the vast majority of his work has been the presence of one or more expensive computer simulators (or "models") of the aspects of reality we are uncertain about, and most of my application work has been with environmental models (e.g. atmosphere, ocean, land ice, coupled GCMs, land surface, crop growth).