CV
Qualifications
2019, SFHEA (Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK)
2001, PhD (Mathematics). Queen Mary, University of London (supervised by Paul Glendinning).
1995, PGCE (Science). Goldsmiths, University of London.
1994, BSc (Physics). King’s College, London.
Employment
June 2025-present: senior lecturer, Lancaster University.
Apr 2023-March 2025: departmental lecturer, University of Oxford.
Sept 2021-Apr 2023: visiting academic/hourly paid lecturer, Middlesex University London.
Jan 2016-Aug 2021: senior lecturer, Middlesex University London.
Oct 2010-Dec 2015: lecturer, then senior lecturer, then reader, University of Portsmouth.
Oct 2007-July 2009: senior research officer, Essex.
Sept 2001-Oct 2007 and July 2009-Sept 2010: research fellow and teaching fellow, UCL.
Sept 1995-Dec 1996: secondary science teacher, Sedgehill School, Lewisham.
Funding
[PI] LMS Workshop Grant. Combinatorial and Algebraic Approaches to the study of Chemical Reaction Networks, (June 2014).
[PI] EPSRC First Grant. Stability and order preservation in chemical reaction networks, (Feb. 2012-August 2014).
[Co-I with David Angeli] Leverhulme Trust Research Grant. Structural conditions for oscillation in chemical reaction networks, (Oct 2011-Sept 2013).
[Co-I with Clare Elwell & Chris Cooper] Wellcome Trust. Integrating monitoring and modelling for real-time tracking of cerebral circulation and metabolism, (Sept. 2010-March 2013).
Publications
Some invited talks (academic and pandemic related)
University of Oxford, WCMB seminar (November 2024) Algebraic approaches in the study of chemical reaction networks
University of Oxford, OXCIS STEM seminar (October 2024) COVID-19 in India: Epidemic, Inequality and Propaganda
Formal Reaction kinetics seminar, Budapest (March 2024) The inheritance of local bifurcations in mass action networks
University of Oxford, OCIAM seminar (May 2023) Bifurcations leading to oscillation in small chemical reaction networks
Mathematics of Reaction Networks Seminar, Harvard University, Politecnico di Torino, Texas A&M University, and University of Vienna (November 2022) Splitting reactions preserves nondegenerate behaviours in chemical reaction networks
Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling, Coventry University (October 2022) Chemical reaction network theory: an overview of some recent results
Formal Reaction Kinetics seminar, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (September 2022, with Balázs Boros) Nondegenerate Andronov–Hopf bifurcations in a class of bimolecular mass-action systems
Applications of Computer Algebra, Istanbul (August 2022) Andronov-Hopf bifurcations in a class of bimolecular mass-action systems
Caste, Class and Politics: Health in India seminar, Bahujan Economists, India (June 2022) COVID-19 mortality: data, propaganda and politics… and inequality
Formal Reaction Kinetics seminar, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (March 2022), Which enlargements of a reaction network preserve its capacity for nontrivial behaviors?
West Virginia University, mathematics, statistics and data science colloquium, (Dec. 2021), Subnetworks, motifs, and inheritance in chemical reaction networks.
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi (Sept. 2021) Lessons from India’s pandemic data. link
Kerala Council for Historical Research (July 2021) The COVID-19 pandemic in India: data, stories and myths. video of talk
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS, TIFR, June 2021), The challenges of mapping India’s COVID-19 epidemic video of talk
Nottingham University, Mathematics seminar (Nov. 2020), Reconstructing Mumbai’s COVID-19 story with modelling and data analysis
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS, TIFR, July 2019). Chemical reaction network theory (in Disease Modelling and Public Health). link (video of talk)
Oxford Industrial and Applied Mathematics seminar (May 2019). From structure to dynamics in chemical reaction networks. link
Leeds applied mathematics seminar, (Oct. 2018) Inheritance of behaviours in bio/chemical networks. link
Freie Universität, Berlin (May 2018). Inheritance in chemical reaction networks. link
Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio (Jan 2016). Some combinatorial and algebraic problems arising from the study of chemical reaction networks (in Dynamics in Networks with Special Properties). link (with video)
Leicester applied mathematics seminar (May 2015). Some results on nonexpansive dynamical systems with applications to chemical reaction networks. link
Madison, Wisconsin (April 2015, two seminars + two week research visit as an honorary fellow). Nonexpansivity in chemical reaction networks. link
LSBU maths study group, London (March 2015). Matrices, exterior algebra and combinatorics.
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India (August 2013). Some mathematical problems arising in the study of chemical reaction networks. link
Queen Mary Combinatorics Study Group (Feb. 2013). Matrix stability from bipartite graphs. link (pdf)
Kent Mathematics Colloquium (Jan. 2013) Identifying monotone and strongly monotone dynamical systems.
UCL (October 2012) Interpreting NIRS data: the modelling challenge (Invited keynote at fNIRS 2012). link
Harvard, USA (July 2011) Monotone dynamics in chemical reaction networks (at Theorems on Biological Circuits).
Linz, Austria (July 2010) What’s in a matrix? Using combinatorics and analysis to make claims about chemical reactions for arbitrary kinetics (Invited keynote at Algebraic and Numeric Biology 2010).
Warwick (March 2010) Injectivity and multistationarity: graph-theoretic approaches (Network Seminar).
London Dynamical Systems Group Seminar. (UCL, Feb. 2010) Convergence in strongly monotone systems with an increasing first integral.
Queen Mary Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics Seminar (Oct. 2009) Combinatorial approaches to injectivity of functions with applications to multiple equilibria in dynamical systems.
Rutgers, USA (May 2009) Predicting injectivity in interaction networks. (Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science workshop).
Manchester (April 2009) Predicting the behaviour of interaction networks from their structure (Centre for Interdisciplinary Computational and Dynamical Analysis seminar).
Stuttgart, Germany (Jan. 2009) Making predictions about interaction networks from their structure (Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control seminar).
Lecturing and course preparation
Level 6-7
Stochastic Modelling of Biological Processes (Oxford, twice)
Advanced Algebra (Galois Theory) (Middlesex, 3 times)
Differential Equations (Middlesex, 2 times)
Dynamical Systems (UCL, 5 times)
Graphs and Networks (Portsmouth, 2 times)
Financial Statistics, (Middlesex, 2 times)
Level 5
Real Analysis (Portsmouth, 4 times)
Complex Analysis (Portsmouth, once)
Calculus of Several Variables (Portsmouth, 2 times)
Applied Mathematics (Portsmouth, 2 times)
Problem Solving Methods (Middlesex, once)
Financial mathematics, (Middlesex, once)
Mathematics for engineers (UCL, once)
Level 4
Vectors and Matrices (Middlesex, 4 times)
Mathematics for engineers, (Middlesex, 2 times)
Undergraduate tutor I have tutored at Christ Church, Oxford, across the first and second year applied mathematics and probability courses.
MSc supervision I supervised two MSc dissertations at Oxford during 2024-25.
Thesis and postdoc supervision Pete Donnell (PhD, UCL); Casian Pantea (Postdoctoral research, Portsmouth/Imperial); Pete Donnell (Postdoctoral research, Portsmouth).
Other teaching I have tutored school students at all levels, and prepared students for competitions, including the BMO (British Mathematical Olympiad).
PhD examination. I have been external examiner for the University of Oxford (twice), and for the University of Nottingham. I have been internal examiner for the University of Portsmouth.