Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

Ph.D. in Physics, Department for Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University, 1999
Currents in Classical and Quantum Spin Chains, Advisor: Zoltan Racz
Diploma in Physics, Eotvos University - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Material Science, 1994
Nonequilibrium Steady States in Driven Lattice Gases, Advisor: Gyorgy Szabo

Positions Held

Reader, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh University, 2013 -
Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh University, 2010 - 2013
Research Associate, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, (with Martin Nowak), 2006 - 2010
Advanced Researcher Fellowship, Department of Physics, Boston University (with Sidney Redner), 2003 - 2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, (with Michael Plischke), 2002 - 2003
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universite de Geneve, (with Michel Droz), 1999 - 2002
Visiting Fellow, Institute for Solid State Research, Forschungszentrum Julich, (with Gunter Schutz), 1998 Spring

Graduate Student co-Advising

Corina E Tarnita, PhD 2009 (HighBridge prize for best math thesis)
Ivana Bozic, PhD 2012

Awards

Advanced Researcher Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2003-2006

Talks

Probabilistic Structures in Evolution, Berlin, Germany
ESF Exploratory Workshop : Physics of Cancer, Varenna, Italy
8th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Istanbul, Turkey
Computational Physics Methods for Cancer, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011
CoMPLEX seminar, University College London, UK
Maths Colloquium, Edinburgh University, UK
Systems Biology Workshop, Lubeck, Germany
Dept of Biosystems Science and Engineering seminar, ETH, Switzerland
Applied math seminar, Edinburgh University, UK
Physics Dept Theory Club, Edinburgh University, UK
Mathematics and statistics seminar, University of Stirling, UK
Aquavit symposium, Max-Planck Inst for Evolutionary Biology, Plon, Germany
Probability seminar, Bristol University, UK
2010
Stochastic effects in microbial infection workshop, Edinburgh, UK
BIRS Workshop on Evolutionary Games, Banff, Canada
Cancer as a dynamical system workshop, Arizona State University, AZ
Applied math seminar, University of Leeds, UK
Applied math seminar, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Game theory for finance, social and biological sciences, Warwick, UK
Biophysics Seminar, Physics Dept, Boston University, MA
2009
Biomath seminar series, UCLA, CA
Applied math seminar, California State University-Northridge, CA
Evolutionary Dynamics meeting, Xidian University, Xi-an, China
Harvard-Peking meeting, Peking University, Beijing, China
SMC-INFM, Dept of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
2008
Physics Dept, Student seminar, Harvard, MA
100. Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers, NJ
AMS-SBM meeting at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay, France

Notable mentions of my work

[in paper 59] Mike Martin in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute: Rewriting the Mathematics of Tumor Growth (2011) (pdf)
[in paper 60] BBC: Lethal pancreatic cancer 'grows for decades' (2010)
[in paper 60] Nicholas Wade in The New York Times: Strides Made Toward Early Diagnosing of Pancreatic Cancer (2010)
[in paper 59] In Science Daily: Individual Mutations Are Very Slow to Promote Tumor Growth, Mathematical Modeling Shows (2010)
[in paper 59] Ronald Regoes in PNAS: Population genetics meets cancer genomics (2010)
[in paper 56] Brandon Keim in Wired Science: Origin of Life Chicken-and-Egg Problem Solved (2010)
[in paper 24] Steven Strogatz in The New York Times: The Enemy of My Enemy (2010)
[in paper 48] Karl Sigmund in PNAS: Sympathy and similarity: The evolutionary dynamics of cooperation (2009)
[in paper 34, 35] Mark Buchanan in Nature Physics: Attack of the cyberspider (2009)
[in paper 41] Matt Ford in Ars Technica: Simulation of cold hard balls related to explosions (2008)
[in paper 38] In Science Daily: New Mathematical Formula For Cancer Progression (2007)

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