Peter Guttorp, Professor of Statistics, Guest Professor at the Norwegian Computing Center, Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Simon Fraser University, Director of the Northwest Research Center for Statistics and the Environment, and member of the QERM interdisciplinary faculty, obtained a degree in journalism from the Stockholm School of Journalism in 1969. He received a B.S. in mathematics, mathematical statistics, and musicology from Lund University, Sweden, in 1974, a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980, and a Tech.D. h.c. from Lund University in 2009. He joined the University of Washington faculty in September 1980.
Dr. Guttorp's research interests include uses of stochastic models in scientific applications in hydrology, atmospheric science, geophysics, environmental science, and hematology. He is co-editor of Environmetrics. He is also former President of the International Environmetrics Society, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. During 2004-2005 he was the Environmental Research Professor of the Swedish Institute of Graduate Engineers.
Teaching
A 08: STAT 491: Stochastic Processes
W 09: STAT 592: Spatial Statistics
Sp 09: STAT 518: Stochastic Modeling Project (with V. Minin)
Other information
- Mail address and phone information
- email: peter "at" stat.washington.edu
- Pictures of Emi (updated 080804)
- Pictures of Eric and Kenji (updated 070316)
- Pictures of our cats (updated 070328)
- Peter's students
- Research activities
- Collaboration with University of Lund.
- Recent presentations
- Current schedule
- Stochastic Modeling of Scientific Data
- Statisticians active in IPCC
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