About me

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, housed with the Living Systems Institute. I work primarily in the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, but work closely with the Faculty of Health and Life Science. In my research, I apply techniques from mathematical modelling (dynamical systems theory, bifurcation analysis) to understand how networks of cells come together to form biological networks that can perform functional tasks. I am particularly interested in spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity in the brain and their role in memory and spatial navigation, and the synchronisation of electrical activity amongst the insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreas. 

Funding

I am generously supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and am a co-investigator on the EPSRC Hub for Quantitative Modelling in Healthcare.

I have previously been supported by the Medical Reseach Council as a Skills Development Fellow and via an EPSRC New Horizons Grant.

I am happy to support applications for summer internships for undergraduate students to the Society for Endocrinology, British Society for Neuroendocrinology and the London Mathematical Society. I have previously supervised three such internships in the past.

Research team

Postdoctoral research fellows:

Nicolás Verschueren van Rees

PhD students:

Henry Kerr
Akshita Jindal
Victor Applebaum

Wolf Byttner

Alan Buchanan

Previous PhD students

Bonnie Liefting

Prospective PhD students

Please get in touch if you wish to discuss developing a research proposal for PhD study. I am open to any project that invovles dynamical systems and biology, particularly if it involves diabetes, neuroscience or pattern formation.

Project page

Further details of my research projects can be found here.