Philip Scarf

# Meet Your Lecturer

## Philip Scarf

Philip Scarf is a statistician by training, but has increasingly worked on problems in operational research since joining the University as a lecturer.

His main research interests are in extreme value theory, maintenance and reliability, and capital replacement decision modelling.

He obtained his BSc in Probability and Statistics from the University of Sheffield in 1984. His PhD was from the University of Manchester in 1989, where his thesis was based on the application of extreme value theory in corrosion engineering.

Philip is secretary to the Maintenance Research Group at Salford and was secretary to both the Scientific Committee and the Organising Committee of the EURO Summer Institute on OR models in maintenance. He is currently Deputy Head of School and Programme Manager for BOAC.