Peter Dalgaard

@pdalgd.bsky.social

Statistics in general, #rstats in particular (Core team member). Professor at CBS w/biostats background. Likes cooking and bicycling and socialising in general. Oh, and music: Opera, Jazz, ProgRock.

I am deeply honoured to be a laureate of the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize, which has been awarded to the R Project. I have been on the R Core Team for almost 30 years, We built and maintained R with a vision to make statistical tools freely available and extendable. Congratulations to entire team!

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

The 2026 laureates are Brian Ripley, Martin Maechler, Kurt Hornik, Peter Dalgaard, and Luke Tierney who have made the longest sustained contribution to #RStats. Half of the $1m prize money is awarded to the laureates and half to the rest of the Core Team.