Complex Systems PhD graduates
Our PhD graduates from Complex Systems have gone on to work in many places within academia and beyond. Here are the most recent ones:
- Reza Ghorbanchian (graduated 2024)
Thesis: Higher Order Processes on Multiplex Networks and Simplicial Complexes
Supervisor: Ginestra Bianconi - Anastasis Kafetzopoulos (graduated 2024)
Thesis: Spectral properties of random matrices
Supervisor: Anna Maltsev - Andrea Civilini (graduated 2024)
Thesis: Models of competition and social dilemmas on graphs and hypergraphs
Supervisor: Vito Latora
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Catania - Gabriele Di Bona (graduated 2023)
Thesis: The social components of innovation: from data analysis to mathematical modelling
Supervisor: Vito Latora - Hanlin Sun (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Dynamic processes on networks and higher-order structures
Supervisor: Ginestra Bianconi - Esma Kurban (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Structural Analysis and Optimisation of Jammed Granular Particles
Supervisor: Adrian Baule
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Fellow at Politecnico di Milano - Lucille Calmon (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Modelling and Processing the Dynamics of Topological Signals with the Dirac Operator
Supervisor: Ginestra Bianconi
Subsequent role: Postdoc in network epidemiology at INSERM - Marius Moeller (graduated 2023)
Thesis: Dynamics of Random Mutations
Supervisor: Weini Huang
Subsequent role: Freelance Data Scientist - Magnus Haughey (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Reconstructing somatic evolutionary dynamics in solid human tissues using spatial genomic data
Supervisor: Weini Huang
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher at Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL - Sandro Ferreira-Sousa (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Quantifying spatial heterogeneity and urban segregation on networks through diffusion
Supervisor: Vincenzo Nicosia
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Networks, Data and Society Research Group, at ITU Copenhagen - Ye Sun (graduated 2022)
Thesis: The Evolution of Knowledge Sharing, Interdisciplinary Research and Funding in Modern Science
Supervisor: Vito Latora - Katerina Zahradová (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Ergodic Properties of Triangular Billiards: A Numerical Study
Supervisor: Oscar Bandtlow
Subsequent role: Content Developer at DataCamp - Filip Bonja (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Time Evolution and Path Integral Formulations of Langevin Equations Driven by General Shot Noise Processes
Supervisor: Adrian Baule
Subsequent role: Business Analyst and Quant Model Developer at Citi - Evangelos Mitsokapas (graduated 2022)
Thesis: Statistical Mechanics modelling of Human Experiences: Memory and Delays
Supervisor: Rosemary Harris
Subsequent role: Tuition and education consultant - Daniele Petrone (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Artificial intelligence and network theory applied to financial systemic risk management
Supervisor: Vito Latora - Andrea Santoro (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Optimisation and information-theoretic principles in multiplex networks
Supervisor: Vincenzo Nicosia
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Bioengineering at EPFL, Geneva - Jin Yan (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Complex Behaviour in Coupled Oscillators, Coupled Map Lattices and Random Dynamical Systems
Supervisor: Christian Beck
Subsequent role: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems - Francesco Coghi (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Large deviation methods for the study of nonequilibrium systems: variational and spectral approaches
Supervisor: Rosemary Harris
Subsequent role: Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics - Mayank Shreshtha (graduated 2021)
Thesis: Fluctuations and uncertainty in stochastic models with persistent dynamics
Supervisor: Rosemary Harris
Subsequent role: Science Writer/Illustrator - Iacopo Iacopini (graduated 2020)
Thesis: Modelling the social dynamics of contagion and discovery using dynamical processes on complex networks
Supervisor: Vito Latora
Subsequent role: Assistant Professor at Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London - Ryan Flanagan (graduated 2020)
Thesis: Network Theory Approaches for the Analysis of Ordered Data
Supervisor: Lucas Lacasa - Owen Courtney (graduated 2019)
Thesis: Statistical Mechanics of Simplicial Complexes
Supervisor: Ginestra Bianconi
Subsequent role: Data Scientist at the Financial Conduct Authority - Oliver Williams (graduated 2019)
Thesis: Temporal networks and the effects of memory
Supervisor: Vito Latora
Subsequent role: Senior Client Engineer at Beacon Platform - Jonathan Hoseana (graduated 2019)
Thesis: The Mean-Median Map
Supervisor: Franco Vivaldi
Subsequent role: Lecturer in Mathematics, Parahyangan Catholic University (UNPAR), Indonesia - Griffin Williams (graduated 2019)
Thesis: Dynamical Systems with Chaotic Noise and Superstatistical Fluctuations
Supervisor: Christian Beck
Subsequent role: Investment Quantitative Analyst at Nedgroup Investments - Anum Khalid (graduated 2019)
Thesis: Enumeration of Generalised Directed Lattice Paths in a Strip
Supervisor: Thomas Prellberg
Subsequent role: Lecturer in Mathematics Education, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, QMUL - Paul Geffert (graduated 2018)
Thesis: Nonequilibrium dynamics of piecewise-smooth stochastic systems
Supervisor: Wolfram Just
Subsequent role: Data Science Manager at Kantar - Fairuz Alwani (graduated 2018)
Thesis: Nonlinear Resonances Over a Discrete Space
Supervisor: Franco Vivaldi
Subsequent role: Assistant Professor, International Islamic University, Malaysia