Richard Mott (statistician)

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Richard Mott is the Weldon Professor of Computational and Statistical Genetics at University College London. He has worked at Oxford, the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and the Sanger Centre, where he helped build software to create and validate physical maps and to automate DNA sequence assembly. From 1999 to 2015 he led the bioinformatics and statistical genetics group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, before focusing on his own research in plants and mice. He moved to UCL in 2015 and has developed methods for mapping in diverse mouse populations, created the HAPPY software for high‑resolution QTL mapping, and helped establish genetic reference panels such as the Collaborative Cross for mice and a panel for Arabidopsis thaliana with Paula Kover.