Author biographies

Adrian Baddeley is the main author and maintainer of spatstat. He is a leading researcher in spatial statistics with 40 years’ experience in academia and government research. He is a former Chair of Statistics at the University of Western Australia, and currently holds a professorial research fellowship from the Australian Research Council. Adrian Baddeley is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Ege Rubak is a young researcher working mainly in spatial statistics and statistical computing. Currently he holds an associate professorship and is part of the world-renowned spatial statistics group at Aalborg University.

Rolf Turner is a statistical researcher with wide-ranging interests and considerable expertise in statistical computing. He has worked as a statistician for CSIRO (Division of Mathematics and Statistics) in Australia, for the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and for the Starpath Project at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He has for several years taught a graduate course on spatial point processes in the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland. He is presently retired and holds an appointment as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland.