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Publications: Available here.

Current research: There are several strands of current research. I am particularly interested in networks which arise in biology and chemistry (e.g. chemical reaction networks or gene networks) and what claims one can make about their behaviour from knowledge only of their structure. In parallel with this theoretical work I have also been constructing numerical models of biological systems, with an emphasis on mitochondrial metabolism, fundamental to cellular energy production. These models included the BrainCirc model, and the more compact and better validated BrainSignals model. This latter model is centred around the clinical problem of interpreting signals which can be obtained noninvasively, particularly from the brain, and particularly using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).

Open source: I created and periodically update an open source biological modelling environment (hosted at sourceforge), designed to make it easy for non-mathematicians to create and simulate biological models. I have just written a translator from SBML allowing import of SBML models into the interface, which is listed on the SBML website. Have a look at this page for some fun recreational maths stuff.

Academic history: In 2001 I finished a PhD on clustering and chaos in globally coupled oscillators in the maths department of Queen Mary , University of London, supervised by Paul Glendinning, now at Manchester. From 2001-2007 I was employed by the MIAS-IRC jointly funded by the EPSRC and MRC, working on models of the cerebral circulation. In parallel, from 2005-2010 I was a part-time lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at UCL, teaching a Dynamical Systems course, mathematics for engineering students, and supervising a PhD student. From 2007-2010 I worked on various grants involved with modelling and measuring cellular energetics in the human brain. The last of these grants, is a Wellcome Trust grant on which I am co-applicant. Currently I am a lecturer in the department of mathematics at the University of Portsmouth.

PhD supervision: From 2004-2008 I co-supervised a PhD student Pete Donnell, along with Steve Baigent. Pete completed an impressive thesis on the qualitative modelling of biological systems - making claims about the dynamics of biological systems based on limited knowledge about the structure of interactions between their elements.

Other interests: Too many to detail... film, music, South Asia, languages and politics to start with. Here are some good sites to visit if you're interested in the the world: the gabber; ZNet . I think scientists and mathematicians, like everyone else, have social responsibilities beyond their immediate research.