Curriculum Vitae


Career and Education

February 2023
- Present
  • Research Associate at School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK;
  • A postdoctoral position funded by EPSRC grant
    awarded jointly to Prof. John Ball, Dr David Bourne, Dr Lucia Scardia.
  • I am primarily working with Dr D. Bourne and Dr Steven Roper (Glasgow) on using modern GPU-oriented optimal transport computational tools in the modelling of polycrystalline materials. See our Python library, PyAPD.
February 2022
- January 2023
  • Research Fellow at School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, UK;
  • A postdoctoral position funded by EPSRC grant awarded to Dr Hong Duong.
  • I worked and continue to work with Dr. H. Duong on entropic regularisation of unbalanced optimal transport and the associated gradient flows with Dr Hong Duong
  • I organised a reading group on Mathematics of Data Science. (see Events).
October 2019
- January 2022
September 2016
- October 2019
September 2015
- September 2016
September 2011
- July 2015

Funding

10-14 November
2025
  • ICMS Workshop: Computational Materials Science and Mathematics at the Particle and Atomistic Scales, Edinburgh, UK
  • I am on the organising committee together with T. Hudson, Dr Xingjie H. Li (North Carolina) and Dr Danny Perez (Los Alamos). I will run a one-day session devoted to numerical continuation/deflation and optimisation techniques at the atomistic scale.
10 July -
1 September 2023
13 March -
16 June 2023
  • Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
    UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
  • Funded stay during the long research programme New Mathematics for the Exascale: Applications to Materials Science.
  • I was a leader of a working group on the adoption of numerical continuation tools in atomistic modelling of materials. This included a computing time allocation at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
13 June -
19 July 2019
  • Kanazawa University Visiting Scholarship, Japan
  • Funded research visit hosted by Prof. Masato Kimura and Dr Patrick van Meurs.
  • Research topic: Bottom-up upscaling approaches to near-crack-tip plasticity