We would like to extend a warm welcome to Lorenzo Pellis who has joined the Complexity Science Centre as a post-doctoral research fellow. Lorenzo will be working with Matt Keeling and Thomas House on epidemic models with waning immunity in structured populations. He joins us from Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial.

February 2012: We would like to extend a warm welcome to Piotr Slowinski and Marleen Werkman who have both recently begun post-doc positions at the Centre for Complexity Science.

Piotr Slowinski joins the Centre for Complexity Science to work on the Sloan Foundation project "Management of Complex Systems". He graduated from Bristol recently with a PhD on "Bifurcation analysis of a semiconductor laser with two filtered optical feedback loops".

Marleen Werkman will be working on models to simulate the spread of bovine infection in the USA and UK, and is funded by the Department of Homeland Security. She joins having completed her PhD at the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture.

January 2012: First PhD for the Warwick EPSRC Complexity Science Doctoral Training Centre.

Congratulations to Paul Chleboun on the award of his PhD. His thesis is entitled "Large Deviations and Metastability in Condensing Stochastic Particle Systems". He was supervised by Stefan Grosskinsky of Complexity Science and Mathematics and Ellak Somfai of Complexity Science and Physics. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at University Roma Tre, working on the large scale stochastic dynamics of kinetically constrained spin models.