Richard Nickl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Nickl

Austrian mathematician

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1980

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Profession: mathematician

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Richard Nickl (born 13 June 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and currently Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.
He is also a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. He attended secondary school at the Theresianum in Vienna (graduating in 1998) and obtained his academic degrees from the University of Vienna, including a PhD in 2005.
He has made contributions to various areas of mathematical statistics, including non-parametric and high-dimensional inference and empirical process theory.
Jointly with Evarist Giné, he is the author of the monograph `Mathematical foundations of infinite-dimensional statistical models', published with Cambridge University Press, which won the 2017 PROSE Award in the mathematics category.
He has been awarded the 2017 Ethel Newbold Prize of the Bernoulli Society and in 2015 was a recipient of a Consolidator Grant Award by the European Research Council.