Research Description


Welcome to my homepage! I am a Reader in Probability at the Statistical Laboratory, part of the DPMMS at the University of Cambridge. (If you don't know what this means, this is roughly the equivalent of an associate professor). I am also a Fellow of King's College. If you've always wanted to know what is the difference between the university and the colleges, click here.

What I do

I am interested in many aspects of probability theory. I enjoy the rich interplay with other fields such as analysis, geometry or combinatorics. I am particularly interested in coalescing processes, and have used these ideas to study questions related to mixing times of random walks, random graphs, percolation, Brownian motion, etc. Often the motivations for studying these questions come from population genetics and statistical physics.

The webpage of the probability group of Cambridge and the probability seminar.

My resume is here.

Programme Grant on Random Geometry. Cambridge Probability has been awarded a substantial grant from EPSRC which will bring postdocs and visitors to Cambridge. See this link for details.

Workshop. I organised with Christina Goldschmidt a workshop on The Geometry of Discrete Random Structures, which took place 18th-22nd June 2012 in Warwick. This was part of the EPSRC Symposium in Probability, which took place throughout the year 2011-2012.

Some pictures
What is it ? What is it ? Random graph simulations