positions held

• Reader, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh University, 2013 -
• Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh University, 2010 - 2013
• Research Associate, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, (with Martin Nowak), 2006 - 2010
• Advanced Researcher Fellowship, Department of Physics, Boston University (with Sidney Redner), 2003 - 2006
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, (with Michael Plischke), 2002 - 2003
• Researcher Position (on leave), Theoretical Physics Research Group, Eotvos University, 2000 - 2006
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universite de Geneve, (with Michel Droz), 1999 - 2002

visiting positions

• Visiting Researcher, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, 2015 Summer
• Visiting Fellow, Institute for Solid State Research, Forschungszentrum Julich, (with Gunter Schutz), 1998 Spring

degrees

• Ph.D. in Physics, Department for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University, 1999
  Currents in Classical and Quantum Spin Chains, Advisor: Zoltan Racz
• Diploma in Physics, Eotvos University - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Material Science, 1994
  Nonequilibrium Steady States in Driven Lattice Gases, Advisor: Gyorgy Szabo

talks

2024

• Kick-Off Workshop, UK Research Network in Stochastics , Edinburgh, UK.
• IWBPA 2024, The 6th International Workshop on Branching Processes and their Applications, Badajoz, Spain.
  2023
  
• XXVII Gliwice Scientific Meetings, 70th anniversary of DNA helix: Nucleic acid structure meets function. Poland.
• 43rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Lisbon, Portugal.
  2022
  
• The Mathematics of Microbial Evolution, Banff International Research Station, Canada. (I had to cancel)
  2019
  
• Applied Maths seminar, Coventry University, UK.
  2018
  
• Recent Developments in the Study of Growth Processes, 17-19 September, Warwick, UK.
• Stochastic models of evolving populations: from bacteria to cancer, Jul 16-20 Edinburgh, UK.
• Modeling Diversity in Cancer And Virus Evolution, May 14-17 Plon, Germany.
  2017
  
• Probability seminar, Bristol University, UK.
  2016
  
• Systems Genetics of Cancer, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK.
• Quantitative Perspectives on Cancer, Stockholm, Sweden.
  2015
  
• Probability and Biological Evolution, CIRM, Marseille Luminy, France.
• EMS-SCM Joint Meeting, Barcelona, Spain.
  2014
  
• Ecology and Evolution of Cancer Workshop, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
• Novel Applications of Statistical Mechanics, Boston, MA, USA
• Symposium of the German Physical Society, Dresden, Germany
• Translating Cancer Data and Models to Clinical Practice, IPAM UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  2013
  
• Complex Systems and Statistical Physics Seminars, University of Manchester, UK
• Warwick EPSRC Symposium on Statistical Mechanics: Models from Statistical Mechanics in Applied Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
• Maxwell Colloquium in Applied Probability, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Applied Maths Seminar, University of Glasgow, UK
• Applied Maths Seminar, University of Dundee, UK
• Particle models in the Physical and Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
• Complexity Summer School, University of Warwick, UK
  2012
  
• Probabilistic Structures in Evolution, Berlin, Germany
  
• ESF Exploratory Workshop : Physics of Cancer, Varenna, Italy
  
• 8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Computational Physics Methods for Cancer, Lausanne, Switzerland
  
• Evolution and diversity in complex systems, Leeds, UK
  2011
  
• CoMPLEX seminar, University College London, UK
  
• Maths Colloquium, Edinburgh University, UK
  
• Systems Biology Workshop, Lubeck, Germany
  
• Dept of Biosystems Science and Engineering seminar, ETH, Switzerland
  
• Applied math seminar, Edinburgh University, UK
  
• Physics Dept Theory Club, Edinburgh University, UK
  
• Mathematics and statistics seminar, University of Stirling, UK
  
• Aquavit symposium, Max-Planck Inst for Evolutionary Biology, Plon, Germany
  
• Probability seminar, Bristol University, UK
  2010
  
• Stochastic effects in microbial infection workshop, Edinburgh, UK
  
• BIRS Workshop on Evolutionary Games, Banff, Canada
  
• Cancer as a dynamical system workshop, Arizona State University, AZ
  
• Applied math seminar, University of Leeds, UK
  
• Applied math seminar, Queen Mary University of London, UK
  
• Game theory for finance, social and biological sciences, Warwick, UK
  
• Biophysics Seminar, Physics Dept, Boston University, MA
  2009
  
• Biomath seminar series, UCLA, CA
  
• Applied math seminar, California State University-Northridge, CA
  
• Evolutionary Dynamics meeting, Xidian University, Xi-an, China
  
• Harvard-Peking meeting, Peking University, Beijing, China
  
• SMC-INFM, Dept of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
  2008
  
• Physics Dept, Student seminar, Harvard, MA
  
• 100. Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers, NJ
  
• AMS-SBM meeting at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
• Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay, France
  

notable mentions of my work

• [in paper 70] Medical Express: Predicting metastasis from primary tumor size (2019)
  
• [in paper 64] Carl Zimmer in The New York Times: Studying Tumors Differently, in Hopes of Outsmarting Them (2013)
  
• [in paper 59] Mike Martin in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute: Rewriting the Mathematics of Tumor Growth (2011) (pdf)
  
• [in paper 60] BBC: Lethal pancreatic cancer 'grows for decades' (2010)
  
• [in paper 60] Nicholas Wade in The New York Times: Strides Made Toward Early Diagnosing of Pancreatic Cancer (2010)
  
• [in paper 59] In Science Daily: Individual Mutations Are Very Slow to Promote Tumor Growth, Mathematical Modeling Shows (2010)
  
• [in paper 59] Ronald Regoes in PNAS: Population genetics meets cancer genomics (2010)
  
• [in paper 56] Brandon Keim in Wired Science: Origin of Life Chicken-and-Egg Problem Solved (2010)
  
• [in paper 24] Steven Strogatz in The New York Times: The Enemy of My Enemy (2010)
  
• [in paper 48] Karl Sigmund in PNAS: Sympathy and similarity: The evolutionary dynamics of cooperation (2009)
  
• [in paper 34, 35] Mark Buchanan in Nature Physics: Attack of the cyberspider (2009)
  
• [in paper 41] Matt Ford in Ars Technica: Simulation of cold hard balls related to explosions (2008)
  
• [in paper 38] In Science Daily: New Mathematical Formula For Cancer Progression (2007)
  

University of Edinburgh School of Mathematics