Curriculum Vitae

Deon Roos

Lecturer in Applied Statistics, University of Aberdeen. Zoology to ecology to applied statistics, by way of a lot of messy data.

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01 Employment
Lecturer in Applied Statistics
University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen, Scotland
Jan 2024 – Present
  • Leading and collaborating on interdisciplinary research in applied statistics with real-world impact.
  • Teaching statistical theory and methods across undergraduate to PhD levels.
  • Assisting research projects through the application of collaborator-specified statistical approaches.
Senior Statistical Ecologist
Animal & Plant Health Agency · Sand Hutton, England
May 2022 – Jan 2024
  • Developed bespoke statistical pipelines for policy-driven research, translating model outputs into recommendations for non-specialist stakeholders across government.
  • Ran computationally intensive model jobs on AWS EC2 within a secure government data environment.
  • Mentored analysts across multidisciplinary teams and led statistical direction on projects spanning ecology, disease surveillance, and regulatory policy.
Teaching Fellow
University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen, Scotland
Dec 2021 – May 2022
  • Coordinated and delivered a highly rated, fully online undergraduate statistics course with strong student engagement.
Research Fellow
University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen, Scotland
Jun 2021 – Feb 2022
  • Conducted international ecological research, including study design and simulation modelling for species management.
Teaching Fellow
University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen, Scotland
Dec 2020 – May 2021
  • Course coordinator for an undergraduate statistics course.
02 Education
PhD Ecology
University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen, Scotland
2016 – 2021
BSc (Hons) Zoology
University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen, Scotland
2012 – 2016
03 Skills
Programming
RRShinyPythonHTMLCSSJavaScript
Statistical Methods
Causal inferenceBayesian inferenceSpatio-temporal modellingHierarchical modellingHidden Markov modelsNon-linear modellingSimulation-based inferenceStudy design
Ecological Modelling
Population dynamicsOccupancy modellingMark-recaptureIntegrated population models
NLP & Text Analysis
Structural topic modelsNatural language processing
Data Infrastructure
Production Shiny deploymentAutomated pipelines (R)Scheduled task automationSQLiteAWS EC2
Data Visualisation & Wrangling
ggplot2gganimateplotlyleaflettidyversebase R
Reproducible Research
RMarkdownQuartoLaTeXGitGitHub Pages
Teaching & Communication
Course coordination (~150 students)Accessible teaching of complex methodsPhD supervisionGrant writingTextbook authorship
Languages
English (Fluent)Afrikaans (Fluent)Spanish (Basic)
04 Awards & funding
2019
Best Student Presentation
University of Aberdeen
Travelling waves as a form of spatio-temporal asynchrony.
2019
Best Presentation
Iberian Vole Workshop, Porto
Spatio-temporal asynchrony in a cyclic vole species.
2017
Sir Maitland Mackie Scholarship
University of Aberdeen
Funding for agricultural research.
2016
Outstanding BSc Zoology Student
University of Aberdeen
2016
People’s Trust Internship
PTES
Funded research position following BSc thesis.
2015
Carnegie Summer Scholarship
Supported BSc data collection.