Dr Clifford’s PhD thesis, conferred in 2013, was completed within the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (QUT) under the supervision of Professor Lidia Morawska, Professor Kerrie Mengersen and Dr Sama Low Choy. The topic of the thesis was “Spatio-temporal modelling of ultrafine particle number concentration”. His undergraduate background is in computational mathematics, mathematical modelling and applied physics. He holds a B AppSc (Mathematics) with Honours for his thesis on numerical analysis of shear-augmented flow, under the supervision of Dr Glenn Fulford and Dr Timothy Moroney. Dr Clifford blogs about his teaching and research at http://samclifford.info
Dr Clifford works on a variety of environmental statistical challenges, including reef coral cover, jaguar conservation, and air pollution and its health impacts.
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