User:Robert A. J. Matthews

After undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Oxford, I embarked on dual careers in science writing and academic research. Over the last 30 years I have published research in areas ranging from neural computing and celestial mechanics to probability theory and the physics of "Murphy's Law" (for which I won the IgNobel Prize for Physics in 1996).

I am currently a visiting professor in the Dept of Mathematics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK and my current interest is in Bayesian inference.

My Google Scholar page is https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Iu8W_G0AAAAJ&hl=en and my ORCID iD is 0000-0002-1253-6107

My latest book is "Chancing It:The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You" (Profile Books 2016).