Director of Postgraduate Research.
Tim Bedford studied mathematics at Warwick University where he obtained BSc, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. The University Management Committee of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons has decided to award Tim an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his work in risk analysis, this will be awarded at a ceremony to mark the official opening of the academic year in September 2008. He held a fellowship at King's College Cambridge where he was a member of the King's College Research Centre project on Chaotic Dynamics. He then took a lectureship in applied probability at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and later became Senior Lecturer in Applications of Decision Theory in the same department. Current research interests are in probabilistic risk analysis, uncertainty modelling and decision analysis.
Tim is or has been active in various professional societies, amongst others the European Safety and Reliability Association and the Dutch Reliability Society, of which he was Chairman. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the European Safety Reliability and Data Association ESReDA. Tim is a Fellow of the UK Safety and Reliability Society and is Advisor on the EPSRC Mathematics Programme Strategic Advisory Panel. Tim was a plenary speaker at European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2007. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Reliability Engineering and System Safety and was Chair of Mathematical Methods in Reliability Conference, 2007. Recent consultancy projects have been carried out for Aveco, ESTEC, MoD, DSTL, Railway Safety, Magnox, Netherlands Ministry for Water Management, Philips.
Tim enjoys jazz music and plays trombone. His great ambition, which will certainly remain unfulfilled, is to play like Frank Rosolino, J.J. Johnson or Curtis Fuller.
