DrAdam Sykulski

Adam is an Associate Professor and Reader in Statistics. Adam's research is in time series, spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, with an application focus in environmental, climate and ocean sciences. Adam has published 35 peer-reviewed papers in statistics journals such as Biometrika (x3), the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B and Series C, x3), Journal of Time Series Analysis, and Spatial Statistics (x2), and broader scientific journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (x2), and the European Journal of Operational Research. Adam is also the author of "What's the difference? Mathematics: 150 key concepts in mathematics" a popular mathematics book published by Ivy Press in September 2026.

Adam has supervised 7 PhD students to completion (with a further 8 under current supervision), 5 post-doctoral researchers and 27 Master’s project students. In 2024 Adam was elected to be a Council member and Trustee of the Royal Statistical Society from 2025-2028, where he was previously the Discussion Papers Editor and Discussion Meetings Secretary for the Journals of the Royal Statistical Society from 2021-2024.

Below you will find YouTube links for various talks on spatio-temporal modelling or ocean drifters, including a recent Keynote talk given at Carnegie Mellon University. In the sidebar there is a link to a talk on the Whittle Likelihood given at a Banff International Workshop, as well as links to open source data and software Adam has worked on with NOAA on ocean velocities, temperatures and current pathways.

Current positions and appointments
- Trustee and Council member, Royal Statistical Society (2025-28)
- External Examiner, MSc in Statistics, King's College London (2023-27)
- Partner Investigator, "Quantifying ocean heat transport pathways at Ningaloo in a changing climate", Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2026 onwards, 873,126AUD)
- Lead for External Partners, ESPRC CDT in Mathematics for our Future Climate, Imperial College London (with Universities of Reading and Southampton, 2024-31, £9,669,721)
- Co-Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London (2023-27)

Recent positions and appointments
- Discussion Papers Editor and Discussion Meetings Secretary, Journals of the Royal Statistical Society (2021-24)
- Environmental Statistics Section Committee Member, Royal Statistical Society (2021-24)
- External Examiner, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool (2021-24)
- Ocean Uncertainty Quantification Working Group Member, US Climate Variability and Predictability Program (2021-24)

- Mathematics Department Representative, Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Programme, Imperial College London (2022-25)

- Partner Investigator, Transforming energy Infrastructure through Digital Engineering (TIDE), Australian Research Council (2021-26)