I am a Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at My postdoctoral position at UCLA is generously supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s prestigous mathematics grant, awarded to promote cutting-edge research in mathematics. I hold a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Uppsala University within the Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics in Sweden, where I was advised by David Sumpter.
My research focuses on developing and analysing mathematical models and methods for various biological applications. I use dynamical systems, network models, and agent-based modelling, as well as statistical methods, to understand collective behaviour, decision-making, and complex systems. I am particularly interested in understanding the role of oscillations and network dynamics in basal cognition.
Latest research results and news
November 5, 2024, Paper accepted: Our paper “A minimal model of cognition based on oscillatory and current-based reinforcement processes” has been accepted to Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
September 9, 2024, IPAM Research Fellow: I am very excited to begin as a Research Fellow in the Mathematics of Intelligences Program hosted by the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA this semester.
June 14, 2024, Invited seminar: I will give an online seminar at the Quantum@SUN Seminar Series at Stellenbosch University on mathematical models of basal cognition.
May 20, 2024, Invited seminar: I will give a seminar at the Integrated Science Lab at Umeå University on Mathematical models of basal cognition.
May 13, 2024, Invited talk: I am an invited speaker at the Brainnet+ 2024 and will give a talk entitled “Beyond Neurons: Modelling Basal Cognition in Slime Moulds”.
May 3, 2024, KAW Mathematics Postdoctoral Grant Awarded: I have been awarded the highly prestigous Knut and Alice Wallenberg Mathematics Postdoctoral Grant to do a postdoc with Professor Mason Porter at UCLA.
April 22, 2024, Research Visit: I am visiting Dr. Audrey Dussutour’s lab at the Research Center for Animal Cognition at CNRS, Toulouse this week.
April 12, 2024, PhD in Applied Mathematics: I have officially earned my PhD in Applied Mathematics! On the 12th of April, I successfully defended my PhD thesis “The Art of Modelling Oscillations and Feedback Across Biological Scales”. The opponent was Professor Helen Byrne, from the University of Oxford.
April 4, 2024, Seminar: I will give a seminar online at the Collective Behviour seminar series.
February 6, 2024, New preprint: Our paper “A minimal model of cognition based on oscillatory and reinforcement processes” is now availabile. This is joint work with Yu Tian and David Sumpter.
Decemeber 20, 2023, Grant award: I have been honored with the O.Andrén Grant, presented to PhD students at Uppsala University for their intelligence, dedication to work, and good conduct, ensuring the surest prospects for future contributions to science.
December 14, 2023, Poster presentation: I presented the poster “The lost art of mathematical modelling – How should we do mathematical modelling in the machine learning era?” at the AI4Research Annual Workshop at Uppsala University, Sweden.
October 12, 2023, Paper published: Our paper Finding analytical approximations for discrete, stochastic, individual-based models of ecology is now published in Mathematical Biosciences.
September 27, 2023, Contributed talk accepted: I got a contributed talk accepted at the workshop Data-driven mechanistic mathematical modelling for life-science applications at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 23-24, 2023.
September 24, 2023, Paper accepted: Our paper “Finding analytical approximations for discrete, stochastic, individual-based models of ecology” has been accepted to Mathematical Biosciences.
July 19, 2023, Paper published: Our paper Using neuronal models to capture burst and glide motion and leadership in fish is now published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
June 28, 2023, Grant Winner: I was selected to win a £1200 grant from G-Research, to partially fund a research visit to Professor Mason A. Porter at University of California, Los Angeles
June 28, 2023, Paper accepted: Our paper “Using neuronal models to capture burst and glide motion and leadership in fish” has been accepted to Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
June 27, 2023, Paper published: Our paper The lost art of mathematical modelling is now published in Mathematical Biosciences.
April 12, 2023, Travel Grant: I have received the Knut and Alice Wallenberg travel grant from the Swedish Mathematical Society. The grant will partially fund my participation in the Santa Fe Institute Symposium Collective Intelligence.
March 29, 2023, Presentation accepted: I got a poster presentation accepted at the Santa Fe Institute Symposium Collective Intelligence June 19-23, 2023.
March 21, 2023, Contributed talk accepted: I got a contributed talk accepted at the workshop Collective Behaviour at Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, August 7-11, 2023.
March 13, 2023, Travel Grant: I have received Liljewalchs travel grant. The grant will partially fund my participation in the Santa Fe Institute Symposium Collective Intelligence.