Huge congratulations to the 2024 TIES Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator (AEEI) award winner: Associate Professor Ephraim Hanks from The Pennsylvania State University. Ephraim has received the award from this year’s TIES AEEI award committee
‘For outstanding contributions to environmental statistics, especially in the field of ecology; for key methodological developments in spatial and spatio-temporal statistics; for strong interdisciplinary work especially in modelling animal movement; for extensive and continued support to the field of environmental statistics.’
We are hoping that Ephraim will be able to present related work and receive the award certificate at the TIES 2024 conference in Adelaide, Australia in December.