Upon completing a mathematics degree and taking the Lyndon Woodwood Memorial Prize for best degree performance at Durham, Mark decided that a life juggling numbers was waiting for him. His next step was a PhD in the Statistics of Extreme Values where he worked on developing general methodologies to describe the dependence in extreme events over time and across space, with applications to oceanography and finance. A year working for Man Investments - a leading alternative investment company - followed, where he developed tools to improve their trend-following system. Mark has now joined Decision Technology as a researcher and brought his numerical skills to the world of commerce and football.

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Representative Publications:

Latham, M.J. and Tawn, J.A. (2008). Modelling mixtures of conditional extremes with an application to the bivariate extremes of European stock indices. Submitted for publication. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C.

Latham, M.J. and Tawn, J.A. (2008). A dimension reduction model for spatial extreme sea-level events. Accepted for publication. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C.