Research overview
For a list of current and past research topics see Research. Publications by topic:- Climate tipping
- Continuation in experiments
- Dynamical Systems with delay
- Piecewise smooth dynamical systems
- Numerical bifurcation analysis
- Semiconductor lasers
Current maintainer and
contributor to open-source
software
DDE-BIFTOOL.
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from
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Current and former PhD Students
- Paul D. Ritchie started 2013, graduated 2016: Noise- and rate-induced tipping
- Courtney Quinn started 2015, graduated 2019: Delay effects and critical transitions in climate models, part of the EU Innovative Training Network CRITICS
- Robert E. Carroll started 2018 (moved to UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology, in 2020) Exploring instability in complex systems
- Asim Alawfi started 2020, graduated 2025: Symmetry Breaking in a Delay Differential Equation Modelling Auditory Streaming
- Ahlam Alhadbani started 2022: Bifurcations in dynamical systems with delay
- Ali Erwy started 2025: Gaussian processes for continuation methods
- co-supervised Zhi Zhang started 2017, graduated 2021, main supervisor Yang Liu
- co-supervised Thoraya Alharti, started 2018, graduated 2023, main supervisor Peter Ashwin
- co-supervised Gaby Wang, started 2019, graduated 2023, Time series analysis and modelling of the freezing of gait phenomenon, main supervisor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
- co-supervising Huda Mahdi, started 2022, main supervisor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
- co-supervising Eman Alnuwaysir, started 2023, main supervisor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
(2010-2021) Associate Editor on the Board of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems.
2022 Guest Editor for Theme Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A on Probing and dynamics of shock sensitive shells.
2012 Guest Editor for Theme Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A on Influence of Nonlinearity and Randomness in Climate Prediction, (Link to Preprint collection).
Other material: Conference Proceedings etc (talk).
Acknowledgment of public support
My research has been supported by the following grants of RCUK/UKRI and EU.
- EPSRC grant EP/V04687X/1 Developing strategies to prevent collapse of the Amazon rainforest (2021-2022) with Researcher Co-investigator Bert Wuyts
- EU Project TiPES, Tipping Points in the Earth System (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 820970)
- EPSRC Fellowship EP/N023544/1 Exploring instability in complex systems - simulations in no-man's land (2017-2021)
- EU Innovative Training Network CRITICS (European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement number 643073, 2015-2018)
- EPSRC Grant EP/J010820/1 Control-based bifurcation analysis for experiments (2012-2014)
