Research Summary

Andre is a computer scientist studying causality and game theory. He did his masters at MIT, his PhD at Cambridge, and his 1st postdoc at Harvard. He is currently doing his 2nd postdoc at UCL.

He enjoys solving puzzles and playing the saxphone.

Roman specialises in stochastic processes and wants to be trained as an experimentalist. He did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology.

He enjoys football and running, watching movies, building electronics, and cooking.

Sonal is interested in understanding how metabolic interactions in microbial communities are shaped by nutrient stress. Currently, she (willingly!) studies yeast populations interacting via stinky gases.

In her free time, she enjoys social dancing and hiking.

Alex is currently developing statistical technique to infer relationships between ecosystem players purely based on observational time series. He did his PhD in the Shou lab.
Alex’s favourite terrible science joke: What’s a pirate’s favorite molecular biology tool? P-C-Arrrghh!

Jamila is interested in borrowing ideas from nature to improve artificial microbial communities. Specifically, how can we utilise ecological instability to improve community diversity and variation? She previously studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge.

In her spare time, Jamila enjoys singing opera and playing D&D.

Jialu is working on experimental evolution and selection of microbial communities.