Brendan Murphy is a statistician who develops new methodologies and models for complex data types. Brendan’s research focuses on finding applied scientific problems where there are no existing statistical models or data analysis methods, or where the existing methods can be improved. Brendan develops novel model-based clustering, classification, and high-dimensional data modelling. He works on applications in agri-food, biomedicine, and social sciences. Brendan has published more than 100 research papers, with approximately 6,900 citations. He is a Principal Investigator in the Research Ireland Insight Research Centre. Brendan is the Area Editor for the Annals of Applied Statistics and an Associate Editor for Statistics & Computing. Examples of impact include:

• Developed 14 open-source R packages with a total of approximately 7.3 million downloads.
• Core member of the Working Group on Model-Based Clustering since 2005, including serving as chair of the committee for ten years.