News

1. Oct 2026
   Our new undergraduate programme, the BSc in Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-world Systems, welcomes its first students. I am Director of Studies for the programme and teach the new first-year module MATH4120: Mathematical Modelling and Programming.
2. Oct 2026
   I take over as lead of the MARS section in the School of Mathematical Sciences.
3. Sep 2026
   My Viewpoint in Physics, The turbulent life of a vortex line, discusses new experiments giving the first direct evidence of the six-wave interactions thought to drive Kelvin-wave turbulence.
4. Aug 2026
   Learning spatial transmission maps from sparse outbreak snapshots with diffusion models is to appear in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
5. Sep 2025
   I joined Lancaster University as Professor of Mathematics and AI in MARS: Mathematics for AI in Real-world Systems, after fifteen years at Newcastle and Glasgow.
6. 2025
   Our paper with the Guo group, Experimental and theoretical evidence of universality in superfluid vortex reconnections, is out in PNAS.
7. 2025
   Vortex avalanches and collective motion in neutron stars, with I. K. Liu, C. F. Barenghi and T. S. Wood, is published in The Astrophysical Journal.