I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College.

My career highlights during last ten years:

• 2016: elected Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
• 2016: recipient of a Simons Foundation Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
• 2014: awarded the title of "Professor of Mathematics" by the University of Oxford
• 2014: elected Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
• 2012: recipient of an OUP John Fell Fund Main Award and a Royal Society Research Grant (size of grants: 125,698 GBP)
• 2011: awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship (size of grant: 483,601 GBP)
• 2011: awarded Nicholas Kurti Junior Fellowship at Brasenose College, University of Oxford (position held 2011-2014)
• 2010: awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize (prize for my work in Applied Mathematics with the value of 70,000 GBP)
• 2009: awarded European Research Council Starting Independent Researcher Grant (size of grant: 625,000 EURO)
• 2008: elected Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford (position held 2008-2011)
• 2008: paper on reactive boundaries selected to the Highlights of 2007 of Physical Biology
• 2005: elected Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford (position held 2005-2008)

My selected preprints and publications can be downloaded here. I have given talks and visited scientific institututions in 23 different countries, including:

• Australia: Matrix Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Creswick (Victoria); Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, University of Sydney, Sydney (New South Wales)
• Austria: Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna; Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Linz
• Canada: Banff International Research Station, Banff (Alberta); 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vancouver (British Columbia)
• China: Nanjing Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing (Jiangsu)
• Czech Republic: Charles University, Prague; Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; 2nd French-Czech conference on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, Trest; 7th Summer School on Mathematical Theory in Fluid Mechanics, Paseky nad Jizerou
• England: University of Oxford; University of Cambridge; University of Bath; University of Bristol; University of Essex, Colchester; University of Leeds; University of Leicester; University of Liverpool; University of Manchester; University of Nottingham; University of Reading; University of Southampton; University of Warwick; Imperial College, London; Queen Mary University of London; Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge; Royal Society, London
• Finland: University of Helsinki, Helsinki
• France: 2nd Meeting on Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Medicine, University d'Evry Val d'Essone, Evry
• Germany: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig; The European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Dresden
• Greece: National Technical University of Athens, Athens; Euroconference "Which Mathematics for Biology?", Academic Village of Anogia, Anogia, Crete
• Hungary: 9th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC 2017), Budapest
• Ireland: Trinity College Dublin, Dublin
• Italy: Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa
• Japan: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa; the Joint Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology and the Society for Mathematical Biology, Osaka; Hiroshima University
• Mexico: BIRS-CMO workshop, Casa Matematica Oaxaca (CMO), Oaxaca
• New Zealand: University of Otago, Dunedin
• Peru: Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima
• Poland: 8th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Krakow
• Scotland: University of Dundee, Dundee; University of Edinburgh; Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Edinburgh; International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Edinburgh
• South Korea: Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech), Pohang
• Spain: Conference on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations, Barcelona; Workshop Noise in Life, Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque; 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Application, Madrid
• Sweden: Uppsala University, Uppsala
• Switzerland: 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zurich
• USA: Princeton University, Princeton (New Jersey); University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Minnesota); Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus (Ohio); Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle (Washington); University of North Carolina, Greensboro (North Carolina); Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Michigan); Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Illinois); SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Raleigh (North Carolina); Biocomplexity V: Multiscale Modeling in Biology, University of Notre Dame (Indiana); SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Snowbird (Utah); The Fourth International Conference on "Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations", University of North Carolina, Wilmington (North Carolina)

I am a member of editorial boards of 5 journals, including:

• Journal of Mathematical Biology (the official journal of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology)
• European Journal of Applied Mathematics
• Computer Science Review
• Journal of Coupled Systems and Multiscale Dynamics
• Applications of Mathematics

My research group is based in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. I have mentored 20+ postdoctoral research assistants and Ph.D. students (Ph.D. is called DPhil in Oxford), including:

• Dr. Maria Bruna - postdoc, funded by my Philip Leverhulme Prize, modelling excluded volumes and macromolecular crowding (2012)
• Dr. Ornella Cominetti - DPhil student, cancer systems biology and data clustering (co-supervised with Prof. Maini)
• Dr. Simon Cotter - postdoc, multiscale modelling of biochemical systems (2010-2012)
• Dr. Wan Chen - postdoc, mathematical modelling of ion channels (co-mentored with Prof. Chapman, 2010-2012)
• Patrick Dixon - DPhil student, network inference: application in Arabidopsis (co-supervised with Prof. Maini)
• Dr. Ulrich Dobramysl - postdoc, stochastic and multiscale modelling in biology (2013-2015)
• Dr. Andrew Duncan - postdoc, stochastic and multiscale modelling in biology (2013-2014)
• Dr. Mark Flegg - postdoc, stochastic modelling of reaction-diffusion processes (2010-2013)
• Dr. Benjamin Franz - DPhil student, collective behaviour of systems of interacting particles
• Ravinda Gunaratne - DPhil student, multiscale modelling in molecular dynamics
• Dr. Guido Klingbeil - DPhil student, reverse-engineering of biochemical networks (co-supervised with Prof. Maini and Prof. Novak)
• Jochen Kursawe - DPhil student, modelling of tissue size control and apoptosis (co-supervised with Dr Baker and Prof. Maini)
• Shuohao Liao - DPhil student, bifurcation analysis of stochastic biochemical systems
• Dr. Chong Luo - postdoc, multiscale modelling in liquid crystal science (co-mentored with Dr. Majumdar, 2010-2012)
• Tomislav Plesa - DPhil student, stochastic and deterministic dynamical systems
• Edward Rolls - DPhil student, multiscale modelling of polymer dynamics
• Dr. Martin Robinson - postdoc, software development for reaction-diffusion modelling (2012-2015)
• Dr. Margarita Schlackow - DPhil student, gene transcription: investigation of interactions between DNA, cohesin complex and mRNA polymerase (co-supervised with Dr. Gullerova)
• Dr. Jean-Charles Seguis - DPhil student, fictitious domain numerical method and its applications (co-supervised with Prof. Burrage, Dr. Kay)
• Dr. Marc Sturrock - postdoc, MBI funded, stochastic modelling of reaction-diffusion processes (2013-2014)
• Dr. Tamas Szekely - DPhil student, multiscale modelling in biology (co-supervised with Prof. Burrage)
• Jonathan Utterson - DPhil student, mathematical and computational biochemistry
• Dr. Christian Yates - DPhil student, modelling domain growth and somitogenesis (co-supervised with Dr. Baker and Prof. Maini)

In Oxford, I have also supervised 50+ shorter research projects (MSc dissertations, Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) student projects, undegraduate research students), including:

• Christian Yates - MSc dissertation: "On the dynamics and evolution of self-propelled particle models", 2007 (co-supervised with Dr. Escudero and Dr. Sumpter)
• Aidan Twomey - MSc dissertation: "On the stochastic modelling of reaction-diffusion processes", 2007
• Ornella Cominetti - DTC project: "Multiscale modelling: application to solid tumour growth", 2008 (co-supervised with Dr. Kulasiri and Prof. Maini)
• Bubacarr Bah - MSc dissertation: "Diffusion maps: analysis and applications", 2008
• Christian Yates - DTC project: "A comparison of stochastic and analytical models for cell migration during early embryo somitogenesis", 2008 (co-supervised with Dr. Baker)
• Ornella Cominetti - DTC project: "Development of correlation map networks of differentially expressed genes in breast cancer from gene expression data: Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) and Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC)", 2008 (co-supervised with Dr. Kulasiri, Prof. Maini and Dr. Samarasinghe)
• Jamie Hill - MPhys dissertation: "The physics of crowding, packing and adsorbing", 2009 (co-supervised with Dr. Jones and Dr. Porter)
• Hana Moore - MSc dissertation: "Mathematical modelling of water purification", 2009 (co-supervised with Dr. Majumdar and Dr. Peppin)
• Owen Jackson - MSc dissertation: "Growth of ice: fractals and glaciers", 2009 (co-supervised with Dr. Majumdar and Dr. Peppin)
• James Dean - MSc dissertation: "Mathematical modelling of liquid crystals", 2009 (co-supervised with Dr. Majumdar and Dr. Peppin)
• Jana Lipkova - OCCAM summer internship project: "Reversible reactions in reaction-diffusion stochastic simulation algorithms", 2009 (co-supervised with Dr. Zygalakis)
• Suruchi Bakshi - DTC project: "Stochastic oscillations in biological systems", 2009
• Tamas Szekely - DTC project: "Connecting models of individual and collective behaviour of cells", 2009
• Lorna Wilson - MMath project: "Analysis of stochastic models of biological systems", 2009-2010
• Patrick Raanes - MSc dissertation: "Crowding: using statics to understand the dynamics of densely packed hard spheres", 2010 (co-supervised with Dr. Jones and Dr. Porter)
• Margarita Schlackow - DTC project: "Mathematical modelling and experimental verification of interactions between the RNA polymerase and cohesin complex in transcription", 2010 (co-supervised with Dr. Gullerova)
• Krishna Kanhaiya - OCCAM summer internship project: "Mathematical modelling of ion channels: narrow escape problem", 2010 (co-supervised with Dr. Chen)
• Katie Leonard - DTC project: "Stochastic simulation of subdiffusion", 2010 (co-supervised with Dr. Baker and Dr MacNamara)
• Struan Murray - DTC project: "Comparative analysis of DNA sequences: an application to identification of polyA sites in Schizosaccharomyces pombe", 2010 (co-supervised with Dr. Gullerova)
• Matthew Phinney - MSc dissertation: "Multiscale methods for stochastic simulation of chemical reactions", 2011 (co-supervised with Dr. Cotter)
• William Berk - MPhys dissertation: "An investigation into transitions from disorder to order in driven systems of anisotropic particles", 2011 (co-supervised with Dr. Jones and Dr. Majumdar)
• Xiang Xue - MSc dissertation: "Chemical systems with fast and slow dynamics", 2012 (co-supervised with Dr. Cotter)
• Chin Pang Ho - MSc dissertation: "Multiscale reaction-diffusion simulations in biology", 2012 (co-supervised with Dr. Flegg)
• Mark Gilbert - MMath project: "Stochastic and deterministic models of chemical systems close to a bifurcation of the deterministic (ODE) model", 2011-2012
• Shuohao Liao - MSc dissertation: "Multiscale modelling of chemical systems: coupling differential equations models with stochastic algorithms", 2012 (co-supervised with Dr. Cotter)
• Robert Ross - DTC project: "Spatio-temporal modelling of the Min system in E.coli", 2013 (co-supervised with Dr. Flegg and Dr. Robinson)
• Jake Taylor-King - MSc dissertation: "Collective behaviour of interacting agents: from robot experiments to theory", 2013 (co-supervised with B. Franz and Dr. Yates)
• Tomislav Plesa - MSc dissertation: "Stochastic Hopf and homoclinic bifurcations", 2013 (co-supervised with Dr. Vejc hodsky)
• Marcin Paczkowski - DTC project: "Stochastic modelling of intracellular calcium dynamics", 2013 (co-supervised with Dr. Flegg and Dr. Robinson)
• Dhruva Raman - DTC project: "Compartment-based stochastic reaction-diffusion models", 2013 (co-supervised with Dr. Yates)
• Andreas Harris - DTC project: "Multiscale modelling of actin dynamics in filopodia", 2013 (co-supervised with Dr. Flegg and Dr. Robinson)
• Tomislav Plesa - DTC project: "Complex chemical Langevin equation", 2014 (co-supervised with Dr. Vejchodsky)
• Rory Mills-Williams - MSc dissertation: "Brownian motion in rapidly fluctuating potentials", 2014 (co-supervised with Dr. Duncan)
• Juanjuan Sun - MSc dissertation: "Bimodality in stochastic gene regulatory network models", 2014 (co-supervised with Dr. Vejchodsky)
• David Kremer Garcia - MSc dissertation: "Swarm robotics", 2014 (co-supervised with Dr. Dobramysl)
• Fernando Gallego Bordallo - MSc dissertation: "Mathematical modelling of circadian rhythms", 2014 (co-supervised with Dr. Vejc hodsky)
• Tomislav Plesa - DTC project: "Multiscale models of bacterial chemotaxis", 2014 (co-supervised with Dr. Duncan )
• Johannes Petrat - MSc dissertation: "A velocity-jump model for robot target-finding in environments with obstacles", 2015 (co-supervised with Dr. Dobramysl)
• Edward Rolls - DTC project: "Multiscale modelling of DNA dynamics", 2015 (co-supervised with Prof. Togashi)
• Adam Malik - MSc dissertation: "Modelling motion and propagation of information in swarm robotics", 2015 (co-supervised with Dr. Dobramysl)
• Arjen Aerts - MSc dissertation: "Optimising swarm dynamics in a simple coverage task", 2016 (co-supervised with Dr. Lee)
• Joseph Field - DTC project: "Swarm robotics in bearing-only formations", 2017 (co-supervised with Dr. Cade)
• Ravinda Gunaratne - DTC project: "Multiscale modelling of DNA-protein interactions", 2017 (co-supervised with Prof. Togashi)
• Thomas Pak - DTP project "Adaptive hybrid framework for stochastic simulation of intracellular processes", 2018 (co-supervised with Prof. Luthey-Schulten and Dr. Earnest)
• Thomas Goodey - Part B extended essay on "An exploration of the applications of diffusion maps", 2018
• Francesca Lovell-Read - Part B extended essay on "Boundary conditions and multiscale methods for the stochastic modelling of reaction-diffusion processes", 2018
• Hussein Daginawalla - Part B extended essay on "A comparison of stochastic and deterministic modelling of chemical reactions", 2018
• Steven Cochrane - MSc dissertation "Distributed formation control without range information", 2018 (co-supervised with Dr Krause)
• Miles Weatherseed - Part C Dissertation on "Mathematical models of DNA-protein interactions", 2019
• Leon Hetzel - OMMS Dissertation on "Molecular dynamics and multiscale methods for the simulation of liquid water", 2019
• Anna Maria Riera Escandell - MSc dissertation "Distributed control of swarm robotic systems in crowded environments", 2019 (co-supervised with Dr Krause)
• Francesca Lovell-Read - Part C Dissertation on "From molecular dynamics to Brownian dynamics", 2019
• Julia Stadlmann - LMS-funded undergraduate summer internship on "Arithmetic dynamics of polynomials in Z[x]", 2019