Richard Mann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics of the School of Matematics at the University of Leeds. He obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford and was previously employed at Uppsala University, the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm and ETH Zurich. He is interested in human and animal behaviour and his research focuses on how agents learn from the world around them, make decisions and take actions to achieve their goals. In particular, he studies collective behaviour, where agents influence each other, and the emergent effects that make the group different to the individual.His research also looks at a variety of statistical biases inherent in data analysis across many fields, with a particular focus on behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology and palaeontology.