Dr. Nichols is the Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics at the Oxford Big Data Institute. He is a statistician with a solitary focus on modelling and inference methods for brain imaging research. He has a unique background, with both industrial and academic experience, and diverse training, having earned his his PhD in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University with cross-training in Cognitive Neuroscience. After joining the faculty at the Department Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, he was the Director of Modelling and Genetics at GlaxoSmithKline's Clinical Imaging Centre, London, where he developed methods for fMRI clinical trials and imaging genetics studies.