Saul Newman is a demographer and an interdisciplinary researcher with a career spanning genomics, medicine, plant science, and demography. He is a currently a research fellow at the University of Oxford, working on intensive, broad-scale human data. His current interests involve the mortality patterns of complex systems, human aging, and the statistics of survival processes. 

Newman received his PhD from the Australian National University’s John Curtin School of Medical Research in 2015. He then returning to academia through in a joint appointment as a senior postdoctoral fellow, working in both the Research School of Biology and the newly-founded Biological Data Science Institute at the Australian National University.