Dr. Nichols is the Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics at the Oxford Big Data Institute. He is a statistician with a solitary focus on modelling and inference methods for brain imaging research. He has a unique background, with both industrial and academic experience, and diverse training, having earned his his PhD in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University with cross-training in Cognitive Neuroscience. After joining the faculty at the Department Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, he was the Director of Modelling and Genetics at GlaxoSmithKline`s Clinical Imaging Centre, London, where he developed methods for fMRI clinical trials and imaging genetics studies. ©