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YCCSA People

We are a large interdisciplinary community of academic staff, Research Fellows and Associates and Research Students, all located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Ron Cooke Hub on the University of York's Heslington East Campus. Others are located within their home departments. Where available, links are to people's departmental home pages.

Academic Staff
Research Fellows
Research Associates
Research Students
Admin Staff
Associates

Peter Ball School for Business and Society	Discrete event simulation, energy modelling, sustainable manufacturing practices, industrial eco-efficiency, performance improvement, practice diffusion. Tel: +44 1904 325302 Email: peter.ball@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/224
Martin Bees Mathematics	Bioconvection; dispersion of biased swimming micro-organisms in bioreactors; differential dynamic microscopy for high-throughput assays on cell motility; spaciation;structure population dynamics in agricultural pest control; mathematical physiology; plankton patch dynamics; chemoconvestion; and bacterial swarming Tel: +44 1904 322038 Email: martin.bees@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage (1) Homepage (2)
Richard Bingham Mathematics	RNA virus evolution Tel: +44 1904 325367 Email: r.j.bingham@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/324
Tim Clarke School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Intelligent autonomous vehicles, industrial automation and flight control with common cross-linking strands in multi-agent systems, machine vision, bio-inspiration, novel hardware demonstrators and complexity. Tel: +44 1904 322359 Email: tc@ohm.york.ac.uk Publications Home Page Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology P/M/001
Stephen Connor Mathematics	Coupling and stochastic stability, and their application to perfect simulation. Tel: +44 1904 323785 Email: stephen.connor@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Mathematics G/N/164
Gustav Delius Mathematics	Symmetries in Dynamical Models of Evolution and Ecology, Stochastic Modelling, Quantum Field Theory, Integrable Systems, Quantum Groups. Tel: +44 1904 323077 Email: gustav.delius@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Mathematics G/N/110
Anders Drachen Computer Science	Game Analytics, Business Intelligence and User Research Tel: +44 1904 325354 Email: anders.drachen@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/232
Eric Dykeman Mathematics	Dynamic properties of viruses Tel: +44 1904 325366 Email: eric.dykeman@york.ac.uk Publications: The York Research Datebase Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/325
Jason Edwards History of Art	British scuplute, Queer Theory and Animal studies Tel: +44 1904 324250 Email: jason.edwards@york.ac.uk Homepage Location: Vanbrugh V/232
Dan Franks Biology/Computer Science	Working on computational models of ecology and evolution: network analysis, animal social networks, predator-prey interactions. Tel: +44 1904 325342 Email: daniel.franks@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/228
Philip Garnett School for Business and Society	Applying systems theory, complex systems theory, and network analysis techniques to a wide range of problems, largely focused on the prcoessing of information Tel: +44 1904 325027 Email: philip.garnett@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/338
Yvette Hancock School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Quantum modelling of nanoscale devices, graphene and Raman spectroscopy of complex systems including single-cell Raman. Interested in the study of complex phenomena across length- and time-scales Tel: +44 1904 325332 Email: y.hancock@york.ac.uk Publications: The York Research Database Homepage Location: RCH/328
Richard Law Biology	Plant ecology, community dynamics and evolutionary ecology Tel: +44 1904 325334 Email: richard.law@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/327
Niall MacKay Mathematics	Mathematical physics (integrable models and quantum groups), applied mathematics (warfare modelling, scaling laws in biology and physics) Tel: +44 1904 323493 Email: niall.mackay@york.ac.uk Homepage Location: Mathematics G/N/111
Julian Miller School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Novel electronic and computational systems whose designs are motivated by biological principles of organisation and operation Tel: +44 1904 322383 Email: jfm7@ohm.york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology P/M/101
Simon O'Keefe Compuer Science	Study of neural networks and their application to a variety of problems Tel: +44 1904 325375 Email: simon.okeefe@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Computer Science CSE/040
Jon Pitchford Biology/Mathematics	Individual-based models (IBMS) of growth, competition and foraging in marine systems: marine reservices and evolutionary fisheries management, evolution under uncertainly, plankton dynamics; terrestrial carbon dynamics in complex food webs, epidemiology, group movement, wind farms and dead birds Tel: +44 1904 328559 Email: jon.pitchford@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepages: Biology Mathematics Location: Biology Room B/S109
Elva Robinson Biology	Working on organisation of ant societies, specifically how the simple behavioural rules followed by individual ants interact to produce adaptive colony-level behaviours Tel: +44 1904 3255338 Email: elva.robinson@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Location: Biology B/D/003
Martin Robinson School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Applying electromagnetic and radio frequency techniques to bio-medical problems; electromagnetic compatibility and shielding Tel: +44 1904 322385 Email: martin.robinson@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology P/Z/014
Angelika Sebald Chemistry	Nuclear magnetice resonance - spin dynamics in spectroscopy and computation Tel: +44 1904 325134 Email: angelika.sebald@york.ac.uk a Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/227
Steve Smith School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Evolutionary computation, particularly alternative representations and their application to image processing. Vision and image analysis for novel medical computing and rich media applications, such as video augmented environments Tel: +44 1904 322351 Email: stephen.smith@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology P/M/103
Susan Stepney Computer Science	Non-standard computation, complex adaptive systems, non-von Neumann architectures Tel: +44 1904 325377 Email: susan@cs.york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/331
James Stovold Computer Science	Distributed cognition, swarm intelligence, robotics, and chemical computing systems Tel: +44 1904 325551 Email: james.stovold@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Computer Science CSE/121
Gianluca Tempesti School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Bio-inspired digital hardware, built-in self-test and self-repair, programmable logic, and cellular automata Tel: +44 1904 323328 Email: gianluca.tempesti@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology P/Z/013
Jacco Thujssen School for Business and Society	Industrial organization and corporate finance, understanding optimal dynamic decision making under uncertainty, using techniques from optimal control theory, optimal stopping theory, game theory, and infinite dimensional analysis. Tel: +44 1904 32 5004 Email: jacco.thijssen@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/226
Martin Trefzer School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Autmatic design of adative systems using unconstrained evolution and development on a hardware platform Tel: +44 1904 323324 Email: martin.trefzer@york.ac.uk Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology P/M/105
Reidun Twarock Biology/Mathematics	Novel analytical and computational tools for the modelling of viruses Tel: +44 1904 325368 Email: reidun.twarock@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/323
Andy Tyrrell School of Physics, Engineering and Technology	Design of biologically-inspired architectures, artificial immune systems, evolvable hardware, FPGA system design, fault tolerant design, and real-time systems Tel: +44 1904 322340 Email: amt@ohm.york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: School of Physics, Engineering and Technology P/B/005
Harry Venables School for Business and Society	Development and application of ant colony optimisation techniques within the field of facility location, a branch of supply chain management Tel: +44 1904 325037 Email: harry.venables@york.ac.uk Homepage Location: Management LMB/223
Richard Walsh English and Related Literature	Narrative theory and complex systems Tel: +44 1904 323338 Email: richard.walsh@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Derwent M/110
Julie Wilson Mathematics	Working on chemometrics, biostatistics and image analysis Tel: +44 1904 325369 Email: julie.wilson@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Mathematics G/N/105
Jamie Wood Biology/Mathetmatics	Working on complexity and emergent phenomena in biologically inspired models Tel: +44 1904 328650 Email: jamie.wood@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Biology Room B/S112

Stewart Aitken	Computer Science 2010 - 2021 Supervised by Professor Susan Stepney
Myat Aung	Computer Science 2017 -2021 Supevised by Professor Alex Wade and Professor Paul Cairns
Rory Davidson	Computer Science 2016 - 2020 Supervised by Dr Paul Cairns
Adrian Barahone Rois	Computer Science 2018 - 2022 Supervised by Dr Jez Wells
Kevin Denamganai	Computer Science 2018 - 2022 Supervised by Dr James Walker
Charline Foch	Computer Science 2019/2023 Supervised by Dr Ben Kirman
Carlos Gonzalez Diaz	Computer Science 2016 - 2020 Supervised by Dr Sebastian Deterding
David Gundry	Computer Science 2015 - 2020 Supvervised by Dr Sebastian Deterding
Laura Helsby	Computer Science 2019 - 2023 Supvervised by Dr Jo Iacovides and Pofessor Paul Cairns
Cathryn Henderson	Computer Science 2016 - 2020 Supervised by Dr jenna Ng and Dr Jo Iacovides
Daniel Hernandez	Computer Science 2017 - 2021 Supvervised by Dr James Walker
Joseph Hesketh	Computer Science 2017 - 2021 Supervised by Dr Sebastian Deterding
Nathan Hughes	Computer Science 2018 - 2922 Supervised by Professor Paul Cairns
Adam Katona	Computer Science 2018 - 2022 Supervised by Dr Daniel Franks and Dr James Walker
Jozef Kulik	Computer Science 2019 - 2023 Supversided by Jen Beeston and Professor Paul Cairns
Shringi Kumari	Computer Science 2016 - 2020 Supervised by Dr Sebastian Deterding
Sha Li	Computer Science 2015 - 2020 Supverised by Professor Maian Ursu
Guilherme Matos De Fahia	Computer Science 2019 - 2024 Supervised by Dr Floiran Block and Dr James Walker
Charles Ringer	Computer Science 2019 - 2023 Supervised by Dr James Walker
En Sattaur	Computer Science 2016 - 2021 Supervised by Dr James Walker
Ryan Spick	Computer Science 2018 - 2022 Supervised by Dr James Walker
Ti Sian Evelyn Tan	Computer Science 2018 - 2022 Supervised by Professor Anders Drachen and Professor Alex Wade
Ozan Vardal	Computer Science 2018 - 2022 Supervised by Professor Anders Drachen and Professor Alex Wade
Elizabeth Vialls	Computer Science 2017 - 2023 Supervised by Dr James Cussens
Matthew Whitby	Computer Science 2018 - 2022 Supervised by Dr Jo Iacovides and Dr Sebastian Deterding
Peter York	Computer Science 2017 - 2022 Supervised by Dr James Walkerand Dr Florian Block

Kieran Alden	Use of computational models to inform or replace biological experimentation, robust model design, statistical analysis of simulations of complex systems University of Birmingham Publications: Google Scholar Homepage 1 - Homepage 2
Adel Aloraini	Machine learning in bioinformatics specially for cancer modelling and gene regulatory networks Qassim University Homepage
Ignazio Cabras Newcastle Business School	Regional growth and development, public sector management, employment issues, urban-rural dynamics, community cohesion and social capital, industry and innovation, knowledge economies and ICT. Email: ignazio.cabras@york.ac.uk Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/339
Leo Caves	Modelling & Simulation of Biosystems: simulation of complex biosystems. Data Science: methods & tools for exploratory data analysis and visualisation for biosystems. Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Email: lsd.caves@gmail.com
Jose Cuesta	Complex systems, statistical physics, evolutionary dynamics, theoretical ecology, social modelling & experiments Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Publications: Google Scholar Home Page
Keith De'Bell	Mathematical modeling of self-organizing systems and complex systems, social development and the social determinants of health. St. Francis Xavier, Canada Publications: Google Scholar
Pierre-Philippe Dechant	Geometry, Symmetries, Moonshine, Clifford algebras, Kac-Moody algebras, Coxeter groups, Cosmology, String Theory, Viruses, Fullerenes, Quasicrystals York St John University Publications: Google Schoolar Homepage
Alastair Droop	Bioinformatics especially NGS data analysis, modelling and visualisation. Complex systems analysis and emergence in dynamic biological systems University of Leeds Publications: Google Scholar Homepage
Peter Dudley	Cybernetics and Adaptive Systems University of Manchester - Manchester Business School Linkedin Page
Bruce Edmonds	Social aspects of informal value exchange; simulating the social processes of science; bridging the qualitative-quantitative worlds; the social complexity of immigration and diversity; social and socially-situated intelligence; measures and characterizations of complexity; evolutionary processes; nature and application of context in cognitive and AI domains; social simulation; philosophy of science (particularly modelling); the application of social processes/structures to computational systems, simulating the social processes of science and using qualitative data to inform the specification of agent-based models. Publications: Google Scholar Homepage
Karim ElSawy	Molecular modelling and computer simulation of biomolecules Qassim University Publications: Google Scholar Homepage
John Forrester	The application of social anthropological theory to ‘real-world’ complex problems especially with respect to human-environmental issues: co-creation of knowledge Email: johnf.sei@gmail.com
Richard Greaves	Simulation of stem cell fate computation Email: richard.greaves@york.ac.uk Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/226
Simon Hickinbotham	Artificial Chemistry: Computational Creativity; Bio-reflective Architectures; Evolutionary Robotics; Pattern Recognition Publications: Google Scholar
Genievieve Hines	Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge Email: genevieve.hines@slcu.cam.ac.uk
Peter Hines	Category theory as a unifying principle that allows us to see the structures in common to a range of fields, from logic, pure mathematics and theroretical computer science, to quantum computing, crytopgraphy, linguistics, and cognitive science Homepage
Ottoline Leyser	Self-organisation in plant development Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University Publictions: Google Scholar Homepage
Michael Lones	Evolutionary and bio-inspired computing methods and applications in biology and medicine Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Publications: Google Scholar Homepage
Christian Micheletti	Development and application of coarse grained models to study kinetic, thermodynamic and mechanical properties of biomolecules International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) Publications Homepage
Howard Noble	Participatory agent-based modelling: envisaging the future through making, playing and explaining games University of Oxford Homepage
Fiona Polack	Engineering nature-inspired systems, modelling, simulation, and validation of complex systems, modelling and metamodelling, software engineering, eg. for security, with formality, Formal and integrated software specification Keele University Publications: Google Scholar Homepage
Ana Teixeira de Melo	Families and Love as Complex Systems; Change in Complex Systems; Complex Thinking; Complexity theory; Interdisciplinary processes and practices; Epistemology and philosophy of science Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Publications: Researchgate Homepage Email: ana.teixeirademelo@york.ac.uk
John Timmis	Swarm and evolutionary robotics, and computational biology University of Sunderland Publications: Google Scholar Email: jon.timmis@sunderland.ac.uk
Mike Tse	Supply chain risk management in solving quality risk by using a large scale, empirical approach Cardiff University, Business School Email: tsem1@cardiff.ac.uk
Emma Uprichard	Methods and methodology; time and temporality; children and childhood; cities and urban change; food; critical realism; change and continuity University of Warwick Publications: Google Scholar Homepage
Peter Young	Population genetics, molecular phylogeny and comparative genomics of rhizobia and other bacteria. Molecular ecology and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi. Bioinformatics and environmental genomics. Biologically-inspired computing Email: peter.young@york.ac.uk Publications: Homepage

Matthew Dale Computer Science	Unconventional computing with physical systems Email: matt.dale@york.ac.uk Publications Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/336
Farzad Fatehi Chenar Mathematics	Applications of non linear and delayed dynamics method to mathematical biology/epidemiology, especially to immunology and autoimmunity, and stochastic analysis Tel: +4 1904 325362 Email: farzad.fatehichenar@york.ac.uk Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/320
Sam Clarke Mathematics Mathematics	Development of software packages for the analysis of X-ray hydroxyl radical RNA footprinting data Tel: +44 1904 325365 Email: sam.clark@york.ac.uk mailto:sam.clark@york.ac.uk Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/321
Giuliana Indelicato Mathematics	Mathematical modelling of conformational changes in viral capsids Development of mathematical tools for the structural characterisation of polypeptide nanoparticles used as vaccines Tel: +44 1904 325369 Email: giuliana.indelicato@york.ac.uk mailto:giuliana.indelicato@york.ac.uk Publications: Google Scholar Homepage Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/321
Eva Weiss Mathematics	Packaging signal-mediated assembly in hepatitis B and other medically relevant viruses and how these can be exploited for antiviral therapy Tel: +44 1904 325363 Email: eva.weiss@york.ac.uk Publications Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/321

YCCSA People

Academic Staff

Discrete event simulation, energy modelling, sustainable manufacturing practices, industrial eco-efficiency, performance improvement, practice diffusion.

RNA virus evolution

Intelligent autonomous vehicles, industrial automation and flight control with common cross-linking strands in multi-agent systems, machine vision, bio-inspiration, novel hardware demonstrators and complexity.

Coupling and stochastic stability, and their application to perfect simulation.

Symmetries in Dynamical Models of Evolution and Ecology, Stochastic Modelling, Quantum Field Theory, Integrable Systems, Quantum Groups.

Game Analytics, Business Intelligence and User Research

Dynamic properties of viruses

British scuplute, Queer Theory and Animal studies

Working on computational models of ecology and evolution: network analysis, animal social networks, predator-prey interactions.

Applying systems theory, complex systems theory, and network analysis techniques to a wide range of problems, largely focused on the prcoessing of information

Quantum modelling of nanoscale devices, graphene and Raman spectroscopy of complex systems including single-cell Raman. Interested in the study of complex phenomena across length- and time-scales

Plant ecology, community dynamics and evolutionary ecology

Mathematical physics (integrable models and quantum groups), applied mathematics (warfare modelling, scaling laws in biology and physics)

Novel electronic and computational systems whose designs are motivated by biological principles of organisation and operation

Study of neural networks and their application to a variety of problems

Individual-based models (IBMS) of growth, competition and foraging in marine systems: marine reservices and evolutionary fisheries management, evolution under uncertainly, plankton dynamics; terrestrial carbon dynamics in complex food webs, epidemiology, group movement, wind farms and dead birds

Working on organisation of ant societies, specifically how the simple behavioural rules followed by individual ants interact to produce adaptive colony-level behaviours

Applying electromagnetic and radio frequency techniques to bio-medical problems; electromagnetic compatibility and shielding

Nuclear magnetice resonance - spin dynamics in spectroscopy and computation

Evolutionary computation, particularly alternative representations and their application to image processing. Vision and image analysis for novel medical computing and rich media applications, such as video augmented environments

Non-standard computation, complex adaptive systems, non-von Neumann architectures

Distributed cognition, swarm intelligence, robotics, and chemical computing systems

Bio-inspired digital hardware, built-in self-test and self-repair, programmable logic, and cellular automata

Industrial organization and corporate finance, understanding optimal dynamic decision making under uncertainty, using techniques from optimal control theory, optimal stopping theory, game theory, and infinite dimensional analysis.

Autmatic design of adative systems using unconstrained evolution and development on a hardware platform

Novel analytical and computational tools for the modelling of viruses

Design of biologically-inspired architectures, artificial immune systems, evolvable hardware, FPGA system design, fault tolerant design, and real-time systems

Development and application of ant colony optimisation techniques within the field of facility location, a branch of supply chain management

Narrative theory and complex systems

Working on chemometrics, biostatistics and image analysis

Working on complexity and emergent phenomena in biologically inspired models

Research Fellows

Bio-inspired algorithms (including AI and machine learning) and their application to games and game data analytics.

Research Associates

Unconventional computing with physical systems

Mathematical modelling of conformational changes in viral capsidsDevelopment of mathematical tools for the structural characterisation of polypeptide nanoparticles used as vaccines

Packaging signal-mediated assembly in hepatitis B and other medically relevant viruses and how these can be exploited for antiviral therapy

Research Students

Admin Staff

Associates

Use of computational models to inform or replace biological experimentation, robust model design, statistical analysis of simulations of complex systems

Machine learning in bioinformatics specially for cancer modelling and gene regulatory networks

Regional growth and development, public sector management, employment issues, urban-rural dynamics, community cohesion and social capital, industry and innovation, knowledge economies and ICT.

Modelling & Simulation of Biosystems: simulation of complex biosystems. Data Science: methods & tools for exploratory data analysis and visualisation for biosystems.

Complex systems, statistical physics, evolutionary dynamics, theoretical ecology, social modelling & experiments

Mathematical modeling of self-organizing systems and complex systems, social development and the social determinants of health.

Geometry, Symmetries, Moonshine, Clifford algebras, Kac-Moody algebras, Coxeter groups, Cosmology, String Theory, Viruses, Fullerenes, Quasicrystals

Bioinformatics especially NGS data analysis, modelling and visualisation. Complex systems analysis and emergence in dynamic biological systems

Cybernetics and Adaptive Systems

Molecular modelling and computer simulation of biomolecules

The application of social anthropological theory to ‘real-world’ complex problems especially with respect to human-environmental issues: co-creation of knowledge

Simulation of stem cell fate computation

Artificial Chemistry: Computational Creativity; Bio-reflective Architectures; Evolutionary Robotics; Pattern Recognition

Category theory as a unifying principle that allows us to see the structures in common to a range of fields, from logic, pure mathematics and theroretical computer science, to quantum computing, crytopgraphy, linguistics, and cognitive science

Self-organisation in plant development

Evolutionary and bio-inspired computing methods and applications in biology and medicine

Development and application of coarse grained models to study kinetic, thermodynamic and mechanical properties of biomolecules

Participatory agent-based modelling: envisaging the future through making, playing and explaining games

Engineering nature-inspired systems, modelling, simulation, and validation of complex systems, modelling and metamodelling, software engineering, eg. for security, with formality, Formal and integrated software specification

Keele University

Families and Love as Complex Systems; Change in Complex Systems; Complex Thinking; Complexity theory; Interdisciplinary processes and practices; Epistemology and philosophy of science

Methods and methodology; time and temporality; children and childhood; cities and urban change; food; critical realism; change and continuity

Population genetics, molecular phylogeny and comparative genomics of rhizobia and other bacteria. Molecular ecology and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi. Bioinformatics and environmental genomics. Biologically-inspired computing

Mathematical modelling of conformational changes in viral capsids
Development of mathematical tools for the structural characterisation of polypeptide nanoparticles used as vaccines

Methods and methodology; time and temporality; children and childhood; cities and urban change; food; critical realism;
change and continuity