People

Dr Kirsty Wan
Principal Investigator

Brief CV
2019-present, Senior Research Fellow, LSI, University of Exeter
2017-2019, Research Fellow, LSI, University of Exeter
2014 PhD, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
2010 BA, MMath, University of Cambridge

Dr Dario Cortese

Postdoc

PhD – Bristol

Dr Hannah Laeverenz Schlogelhofer

Postdoc

PhD – Cambridge

Samuel Bentley

Research Tech/ PhD student

MSci – Durham

Duncan Kennedy

PhD student

MSci – Birmingham

Rebecca Poon

PhD student

Mphil – Cambridge

We have a number of funded PhD studentships available for entry in 2021/22: dedicated page here.

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Co-supervised students

  • Guy Hale, 2021 (MSci project: machine learning for behavioural phenotyping, with Dr Fabrice Gielen, LSI)
  • Olivia Graham, 2021 (BSc project: how to swim towards the light, with Dr Remy Chait, UoE Biosciences)
  • Peyman Shadmani, PhD Physics (primary supervisor: Dr David Richards, LSI)
  • Konrad Heinz, PhD Biosciences (primary supervisor: Prof Gaspar Jekely, LSI)

Alumni

Undergraduate dissertations
– James O’Connell, 2020 (project: light responsive microalgae, with Dr Remy Chait, UoE Biosciences)
– Angus Horne, 2019 (project: collective pattern formation, with Dr David Horsell, UoE Physics)
– Rhys Simon-Lloyd, 2019 (project: collective pattern formation, with Dr David Horsell, UoE Physics)
– Katrina West, 2018 (project: parasitic flagellates, with Dr Tetsu Kudoh, UoE Biosciences)