Michael Crowther, PhD

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CEO and Director of Statistical Methodology

Michael was for many years an academic biostatistician, rising to Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Leicester, before relocating to Stockholm in 2021 to pursue some new challenges. He is an expert in survival analysis and joint longitudinal-survival models, having made numerous contributions to the fields, and widely respected as a statistical software developer. He is a former NIHR Fellow and MRC New Investigator, and a co-author of NICE TSD 21: Flexible methods for survival analysis. He also teaches advanced statistics courses globally, particularly in joint modelling and multi-state survival analysis, and is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Education

PhD in Medical Statistics, University of Leicester, UK, 2014 with thesis “Development and application of methodology for the parametric analysis of complex survival and joint longitudinal-survival data in biomedical research”
MSc Medical Statistics, University of Leicester, UK, 2010 with thesis “Individual patient data meta-analysis of survival data using Poisson regression models”
MMath Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, UK, 2009

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