Education
Grimmett was educated at King Edward"s School, Birmingham and Merton College, Oxford. He graduated in 1971, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 under the supervision of John Hammersley and Dominic Welsh.
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Grimmett was educated at King Edward"s School, Birmingham and Merton College, Oxford. He graduated in 1971, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 under the supervision of John Hammersley and Dominic Welsh.
He is the Professor of Mathematical Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and the Master of Downing College, Cambridge. He was the International Business Machines Corporation Research Fellow at New College, Oxford from 1974–1976 before moving to the University of Bristol. He was appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge in 1992, becoming a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
He was the managing editor of the journal from 2000–2005, and was appointed managing editor of in 2009.
In October 2013 he was installed as Master of Downing College, Cambridge in succession to Professor Barry Everitt. Geoffrey Grimmett is the son of Benjamin J Grimmett and Patrica West (Lewis) Grimmett.
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He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as a member of the Great Britain Men"s Foil Team, finishing 6th.