Current interests

Alistair's current research interests include coordinate metrology, human sensory meterology, conformance assessment and Bayesian inference.

Biography

Since joining NPL in 1985, Alistair has been involved in mathematical and statistical modelling, numerical analysis and scientific software development, with applications across metrology. He is on the steering committee of a number of international conferences including the series on Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology, and is scientific secretary of the IMEKO Technical Committee 21: Mathematical Tools in Measurement.

Since 2000, Alistair has been a Visiting Professor of Industrial Mathematics at the School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield.

Find out more about Alistair's research in Mathematics & Scientific Computing

Contact details

E-mail: alistair.forbes@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 6348