About me
I’m a Reader in the Statistics and Probability Group in the Department of Mathematics at the University of York, UK.
My research interests are primarily in applied probability. In particular:
- mixing times of Markov chains
- perfect simulation
- coupling theory
- interacting particle systems.
I regularly run outreach sessions at local schools, and from 2017 - 2020 I was a London Mathematical Society Holgate Session Leader.
- I co-founded the Probability in the North East (PiNE) research network
- I’m an editor for the Applied Probability Trust journals
- I’m a member of the Research Grants Committee of the London Mathematical Society
- From 2020 - 2024 I was an external member of the Academic Steering and Management Group for the Scottish Mathematical Sciences Training Centre
- For most of 2009 - 2019 I was a lecturer of the Applied Stochastic Processes module for the Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS