Wood , Jamie - University of York - Department of biology

个人简介

Career 2007 - RCUK Fellow in Biological Complexity Department of Biology, University of York 2005 - 2007 Postdoctoral Research Assistant Edinburgh 2004 Postdoctoral Research Assistant Oxford 2002 - 2004 Royal Commission for Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow Oxford 2002 PhD and DIC Imperial College, London 2000 MA University of Cambridge 1998 Part III Mathematics University of Cambridge 1997 BA Mathematics University of Cambridge

研究领域

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My current research interests are in the field of complexity and emergent phenomena in biologically inspired models. This is primarily focused on understanding how we may use both computational and analytic techniques in statistical mechanics to further our knowledge of the stability and robustness of natural systems. This is a broad area, and my current work includes: extending models based on James Lovelock's Daisyworld parable including looking for links to established theories in quantitative genetics; investigating flocking or herding behaviour in animals, and how these systems can be related to models of network rewiring; developing primitive models of quorum sensing in bacteria, especially understanding spatial effects and how this may lead to biofilm formation. My other interests are in the field of wetting and interfacial phenomena. In particular the fluctuation behaviour of interfaces and the effect of confining substrate walls and other alternate geometries. I have approached these problems both through exact results in the context of the two-dimensional Ising model, and also by effective Hamiltonian theories.