Richard Gill

Richard D. Gill is a prominent British-Dutch mathematician and statistician who is currently Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and at his own consultancy, Richard Gill Statistics.14 Here are some key details about his background and career:

Academic Career

Richard Gill was born in 1951 in the UK and studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, obtaining his B.A. in 1973 and a Diploma in Statistics in 1974.12 He later earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1979 from the Vrije Universiteit with a thesis on censoring and stochastic integrals.1

Throughout his career, Gill has held several academic positions in the Netherlands:

• Worked at the Mathematical Centre (now Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) in Amsterdam from 1974
• Became head of the Department of Mathematical Statistics at CWI in 1983
• Moved to Utrecht University in 1988, holding the chair in mathematical stochastics
• Joined Leiden University in 2006 as chair of mathematical statistics
• Retired from Leiden University in 20171

Research and Expertise

Gill's areas of expertise include:

• Probability theory and statistics
• Counting processes
• Quantum statistics
• Survival analysis
• Forensic statistics

He has supervised 24 Ph.D. students throughout his career, including notable statisticians Sara van de Geer and Mark van der Laan.1

Advocacy and Consulting

Beyond his academic work, Gill is known for his advocacy and consulting, particularly in cases involving alleged statistical misrepresentation in criminal trials. He has lobbied for retrials of nurses convicted based on statistical evidence, including Lucia de Berk and Benjamin Geen.1

Honors and Affiliations

• Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Past president of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research
• Selected as the 2010-2011 Distinguished Lorentz Fellow by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences1

Richard Gill became a Dutch citizen in 1996 and continues to be active in research, consulting, and advocacy in the field of statistics.13