Current PhD students

Kat Williams, 2016-2019, Regulation of RNA production and degradation, mainly supervised by Cornelia de Moor (Pharmacy).

Former PhD students

Edward Acheampong. 2015-2019. Modelling waste water treatment, jointly supervised by Rachel Gomes (Engineering), Jamie Twycross (Computer Sci) and Ian Dryden (maths).

Matthew Coleman. 2013-2017, Mathematical modelling of metabolism, jointly supervised by John King (maths).

Hannah Williams. 2012-2017, Mathematical modelling of growth enhancers in pigs, jointly supervised by Ian Dryden (maths), with Tim Parr and John Brameld (biosciences).

Raj Gandhi. 2012-2016, mRNA regulation, mainly supervised by Cornelia de Moor (Pharmacy).

Tom Wicks. 2011-2015, Simulations of Polymer Nucleation, lead supervision by Richard Graham.

Adrian Pratt. 2010-2014, Mathematical Modelling of Hepatic Steatosis, jointly supervised by Andy Salter, School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington.

Rea L Antoniou Kourounioti, 2012-2013, mainly supervised by Erik Murchie, Oliver Jensen (Manchester) and Mercedes Maroto-Valer (NCCCS).

Valerie Pestinger. 2010-2013, mainly supervised by, Kevin Sinclair, Biosciences, Sutton Bonington, jointly supervised by Helen Byrne.

Tal Pearson, 2007-2013 Metabolic flexibility (jointly supervised by John King, Ian MacDonald, and Unilever Research). Tal sadly died in 2013, aged just 26, following a 2-year battle with cancer.

Bartholomaeus Hirt, 2008-2012, Mathematical Modelling of Telomeres and Cell Cycle, (jointly supervised with Simon Preston and Charlie Laughton).

Matt Hamer, 2008-2012, Polymer nucleation, (mainly supervised by Richard Graham)

Amir Ali, 2009-2012, Fractional fluxons in AC-driven SG, radiative damping and breather-kink interactions (mainly supervised by Hadi Susanto).

Saeed Ahmed, 2008-2011/2, Pi-kinks in Josephson junctions (mainly supervised by Hadi Susanto).

Qi Qi, 2007-2010, Kinetics of Telomere loss/growth, (jointly supervised by Helen Byrne)

Xiang Yi. 2006-2010, Solitons on Lattices, (jointly supervised by Hadi Susanto, Linda Cummings)

Ciprian-Ionut Duduiala. 2006-2009, Dynamics of DNA, (jointly supervised by Ian Dryden and Charlie Laughton)

Imran Butt. 2002-2006. Nonlinear waves.

Eugene Maltsev. 2001-2005, DNA condensation, (jointly supervised by Helen Byrne, Snow Stolnik and Clive Roberts (Pharmaceutical Sciences)).

Graeme Smith. 2000-2003, Evanescent waves, (primarily supervised by Stephen Creagh).

Colin Bolton. 2000-2003, Problems in cluster-formation.

John Harris. 1998-2002, Mechanical Alloying, (jointly supervised with Professor John Wood, Materials Division).

Susan Davies. 1995-1998, Gelation in the coagulation equations, (jointly supervised with John King).

MSc students

Weicong Nie. 2020. Statistical analysis of metabolic data.

Elise Leahy. 2019. Telomere length dynamics.

Aisha Malek. 2018. Homogeneous nucleation.

Bronwyn McKee. 2018. Differential-delay models of mRNA degradation.

Matt Roberts. 2017. Modelling the effect of Cordecepin on cellular metabolic fluxes.

Georgios Zenios. 2016. Base-pair breathing in stochastic models of DNA.

Georgia Sinainou. 2015. Chiral symmetry-breaking in crystallisation.

Nur Mohd Idris Aziean. 2015. Fitting DNA variance data.

Brendan Curtis. 2012-3. mRNA degradation.

Martyn Rath. 2010. Mathematical modelling of Telomere length dynamics in the presence of telomerase.

Caroline Northall. 2008. Coarse-graining and asymptotic analysis of a PDE model of lipoprotein metabolism (jointly supervised by John King and Brendan O’Malley, Unilever).

UG Summer Research Students


Jamie Scantlebury-Smead, 2019, Monitoring metabolism in the human brain.

Thomas Gresham, 2019, Spiders in Space.

Aaron Knights, 2018, Chiral polymerisation.

James Attwood, 2018, Telomere-clustering in yeast. (Wellcome)

Louise Reeve, 2014, DNA condensation.

Ben Purvis, 2014, Random Sequential Adsorption.

Natalie Reckless, 2013, Telomere dynamics.

Clare Pym, 2012, Deadenylation of mRNA, (in collaboration with Cornelia de Moor, Pharmacy).

Lisa Wyver, 2007, Simulations of Telomere shortening.

Tal Pearson, 2006, Pit model of LDL/VLDL competitive endocytosis.

Final year UG project students

Leo Pickett, 2020, Estimating nucleation rates using Becker-Doring models.
Alexander Jones, 2020, Comparison of coagulation-fragmentation models.
Justin Millican, 2019, Coagulation kinetics.
Jamie Rees, 2018-9, Coagulation-fragmentation equations.
Khalil Huq, 2018-9, Cellular Automata.
Gursimar Dhillon, 2018-9, Chiral symmetry-breaking.
Ihar Duniak, 2016-7, Nonlinear waves in FPU chains with internal modes.
Adam Bullock, 2016-7, Nonlinear waves in diatomic FPU chains.
Emily Collinson, 2015, Cellular Automata.
Joe Atkinson, 2014-15, Oort-Hulst coagulation-fragmentation.
Christina Baker, 2014-15, Chiral polymerisation and symmetry-breaking.
Alex Kelly, 2013-14, Oort-Hulst coagulation-disintegration.
Maya Kolaska, 2013-14, Chiral polymerisation and epimerisation.
Louise Adams, 2013-14, Differential-delay equations.
Peter Underdown, 2012-13, Coagulation with oscillatory input.
Laura Davis, 2012-13, The parking problem.
Matt Dawson 2011-2012, Differential-delay equations.
Nathan Bishop 2011-2012, The parking problem.
Sam Bonser, 2011-2012, Telomerase recombination.
David Burston, 2011-2012, Oort-Hulst coagulation-fragmentation.
Lauren James, 2010-2011, Breathers in a FPU honeycomb lattice.
Tom Copeland, 2010-2011, Symmetry-breaking in an APED model.
Jasmina Patwalia, 2009-2010, The parking problem.
Falguni Patel, 2008-2009, Chiral symmetry-breaking.
Lisa Wyver, 2006-2007, Lattice dynamics.
Anne McAteer, 2006-2007, Modelling fat take-up by liver cells.
Robert Taylor, 2006-2007, DNA condensation by charge neutralisation.
Jayna Lad, 2004-2005, Slime moulds.
James Fermont, 2004-2005. Polymerisation reactions.
Alistair Vincent, 2001-2002, Competitive nucleation.
Nigel Lowe 2000-2001, Modelling the Dynamics of DNA.
Russell Tew, 1999-2000, Travelling waves in a diatomic lattice.
Lee Boxall, 1997-1998, Modelling protein crystallisation.
Liz Greenslade, 1996-1997, Rehousing the homeless.
Greg Vanes, 1995-1996, Travelling waves in hydrogen-bonded systems.
Martin Pickup, 1994-1995, Electric potential in an electrolyte bath.