| Citation | Donnelly's fundamental contributions in population genetics and other areas of probability and statistics are both theoretical and practical. He has played a major role in the development and application of coalescent methods in genetics, providing novel qualitative and quantitative insights and new statistical methods for analysing the burgeoning data sets that document DNA sequence diversity within populations. He has provided a novel representation for measure-valued diffusions explicitly incorporating genealogy. He has introduced and developed new methods for the analysis of within-population DNA sequence data. His work on the interpretation of DNA forensic evidence has highlighted conceptual misunderstandings and has changed standard practice. |