Dr Kim Kenobi
Lecturer
Contact Details
- Email: kik10@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-7074-7159
- Office: 4.17, Physical Sciences Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622767
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
I arrived in Aberystwyth in October 2014 to start working as a statistics lecturer. Before that, I spent 11 years in Nottingham, completing a PhD in Statistical Shape Analysis in 2007 and spending 6 ½ years as a statistics postdoc on a multidisciplinary plant biology project.
My research interests are on biological applications of statistics. This includes species distribution modelling (dolphins and Curlew), network biology and statistical shape analysis/biological geometric morphometrics.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- MAM9060 - Dissertation
- PGM0910 - Statistics in context: collecting, handling and presenting data
- MA35210 - Topics in Biological Statistics
- MA37810 - Stochastic Models in Finance
- MAM5220 - Statistical Techniques for Computational Scientists
- MA15210 - Games, Puzzles and Strategies 2
- MAM5120 - Statistical Concepts, Methods and Tools
- MAS0260 - Mathematics Year in Industry
Tutor
- MA10510 - Algebra
- MA26620 - Applied Statistics
- MP12910 - Career Planning and Skills Development
- MA35210 - Topics in Biological Statistics
- MAM5220 - Statistical Techniques for Computational Scientists
- MAM9720 - Minor Project
- MAM5120 - Statistical Concepts, Methods and Tools
Lecturer
- MAM5220 - Statistical Techniques for Computational Scientists
- MA35210 - Topics in Biological Statistics
- MA37810 - Stochastic Models in Finance
- BG25620 - Dulliau Ymchwil
- MA15210 - Games, Puzzles and Strategies 2
- MAM5120 - Statistical Concepts, Methods and Tools
- PGM0910 - Statistics in context: collecting, handling and presenting data
- MA10720 - Career Planning and Mathematical Skills Development
- MT10720 - Cynllunio Gyrfa a Datblygu Sgiliau Mathemategol
Coordinator
- MA35210 - Topics in Biological Statistics
- PGM0910 - Statistics in context: collecting, handling and presenting data
- MAM5220 - Statistical Techniques for Computational Scientists
- MAS0260 - Mathematics Year in Industry
- MAM9060 - Dissertation
- MA37810 - Stochastic Models in Finance
- MAM5120 - Statistical Concepts, Methods and Tools
- MA15210 - Games, Puzzles and Strategies 2
MAM5120 Statistics: Concepts, Methods and Tools
MA37810 Stochastic Models in Finance
PGM2810 Bioinformatics Skills for Biologists
PGM0910 Statistics in Context: Collecting, Handling and Presenting Data
MAM5220 Statistical Techniques for Computational Scientists
MA35210 Topics in Biological Statistics
Research
I currently have two PhD students working on dolphin datasets, one on an observational dataset of the dolphins in Cardigan Bay, West Wales, and the other using network theory to analyse a dataset of the dolphins off the east coast of Scotland. Since arriving in Aberystwyth, I have co-supervised two other PhD projects, one on using ordinary differential equations to model tick-borne diseases in ecological communities and another on bacterial genetics.
I was involved in the ECHOES project between December 2019 and June 2023, which was looking at the effect of climate change on bird coastal communities on both sides of the Irish Sea. I was lead author on a paper about the overwintering distributions of Curlew in Britain and Ireland that over the period 2003 to 2019 that made use of land use data from satellites and environmental variables to assess the habitat preferences of Curlew between November and February.
I am now starting to realign with the shape analysis I studied for my PhD, and am moving more towards research problems involving landmark-based geometric morphometrics, with a particular focus on the mammalian skeleton.