Paulo Lisboa is Professor and Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at Liverpool John Moores University. His research focus is advanced data analysis for decision support. He has applied data science to personalized medicine, public health, sports analytics and digital marketing. In particular, he has an interest in rigorous methods for interpreting complex models with data structures that can be validated by domain experts.
He is vice-chair of the Horizon2020 Advisory Group for Societal Challenge 1: Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing, providing scientific advice to one of the world’s largest coordinated research programs in health. A member of Council for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, he is past chair of the Medical Data Analysis Task Force in the Data Mining Technical Committee of the IEEE, chair of the JA Lodge Prize Committee and chair of the Healthcare Technologies Professional Network in the Institution of Engineering & Technology. He is on the Advisory Group of Performance.Lab at Prozone and has editorial and peer review roles in a number of journals and research funding bodies including EPSRC.
Paulo Lisboa studied mathematical physics at Liverpool University where he took a PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1983. He was appointed to the chair of Industrial Mathematics at Liverpool John Moores University in 1996 and Head of Graduate School in 2002.