Professor Dr. Stephen Senn

Originally from Switzerland, Stephen Senn has been Professor of Statistics at the University of Glasgow since 2003. He was Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Statistics at University College London from 1995-2003. He has also worked in the Swiss pharmaceutical industry and for the National Health Service in England. He is the author of the monographs Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research (1993, 2002), Statistical Issues in Drug Development (1997, 2007), Dicing with Death (2003) and over 200 scientific publications. In

2001 Stephen Senn was the first recipient of the George C Challis award for Biostatistics of the University of Florida and in 2008 he gave the Bradford Hill lecture of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an honorary life member of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI). In 2006 he captained the Royal Statistical Society team that reached the final of the BBC quiz programme, University Challenge, The Professionals.