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

• Apr 2023-present: 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

Listed here

Some invited talks (academic and pandemic related)

• 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).

Teaching and course preparation

Level 6-7

• Advanced Algebra (Galois Theory) (Middlesex, 3 times)

• Differential Equations (Middlesex, 1 time)

• 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)

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, and for the University of Nottingham. I have been internal examiner for the University of Portsmouth.