I am now a Research Associate at the Department of Statistics - my webpage has moved here!

Background:

I am a final year PhD student working in mathematical population genetics under the supervision of Paul Jenkins, Jere Koskela and Dario Spanò. I graduated with a B.Sc in Mathematics and Statistics & OR (specialising in the latter) at the University of Malta in 2016, and completed Part III (MASt in Mathematical Statistics) at Cambridge in the following year.

Research Interests:

My research interests mainly revolve around probability and statistics. I am particularly interested in mathematical population genetics which aims to offer a mathematical framework within which to understand and explain how various biological phenomena propagate in nature. I am also interested in stochastic processes and Bayesian statistics in general and how these two fields complement one another to offer more flexible frameworks within which to model various real life processes.

Publications:

[1] Jaromir Sant, Paul A. Jenkins, Jere Koskela, Dario Spanò. Convergence of Bayesian Estimators for Diffusions in Genetics. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. To appear. arxiv link

Talks & Posters:

Inference for natural selection from allele frequency time series data using exact simulation techniques, Algorithms & Computationally Intensive Inference seminar, Warwick, February 2021 (online)

Exact MCMC Inference for Wright-Fisher Diffusions, SPAAM seminar, Warwick, December 2020 (online)

Convergence of Bayesian Estimators for Diffusions in Genetics, Berlin "Stochastic processes and applications in biology" seminar, July 2020 (online)

Mathematical Models in Genetics, Reading SIAM-IMA Seminar Series, Reading, April 2020 (online)

Rates of Convergence to Equilibrium for 1 Dimensional Diffusions, PG Seminar, Warwick, March 2020

Bayesian Inference for Genetics, Workshop on Models and Inference in Population Genetics, University of Warwick, Coventry, December 2019

Bayesian Inference for Genetics, LMS Probability Research School "Random Structures: From the Discrete to the Continuous", Bath 2019

Bayesian Inference for Genetics - A Tale of Two Alleles, YRM, Warwick, June 2019

Bayesian Inference for Genetics - A Tale of Two Alleles, PG Seminar, Warwick, May 2019

Bayesian Estimation for Genetics, MASDOC retreat, Borth, May 2019

Bayesian Estimation for Genetics, IPSA joint CDT Colloquium, Warwick, April 2019

Bayesian Estimation for Diffusions in Genetics, PDMU Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2018

Machine Learning in Image Analysis, MASDOC retreat, with Hanson Bharth, Jacek Kiedrowski and Jack Thomas, April/May 2018

Controlling Stochastic Currency Risk Exposure Optimally, Part III Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, November 2017

Controlling Stochastic Currency Risk Exposure Optimally, PDMU Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, August 2016

Events:

Workshop on Models and Inference in Population Genetics, University of Warwick, Coventry, December 2019

Workshop on Probabilistic Coupling and Geometry, University of Warwick, Coventry, December 2019

Growth and Division in Mathematics and Medicine Workshop, UCL, London, November 2019

LMS Probability Research School "Random Structures: From the Discrete to the Continuous", Bath 2019

BNP12, 12th International Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics, Oxford, June 2019

Probability meets Biology Workshop, Bath, April 2019

IPSA joint CDT Colloquium, Warwick, April 2019

Population Dynamics and Statistical Physics in Synergy II Workshop, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, April 2019

PDMU Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2018

LMS Invited Lecture Series and CRISM Summer School in Computational Statistics, Warwick, July 2018

PDMU Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, August 2016

Teaching:

2019/2020

Teaching Assistant for ST220 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics Term 1

Teaching Assistant for ST219 Mathematical Statistics Part B Term 2

2018/2019

Teaching Assistant for ST218 Mathematical Statistics Part A Term 1

Teaching Assistant for ST202 Stochastic Processes Term 2

Supervisor for a group of non-maths students Terms 1 & 2

Contact:

My email is J.Sant@warwick.ac.uk