I am a first year PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Hong Liu and Prof. Oleg Pikhurko. My research interests lie in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, Analytic Combinatorics and Ramsey Theory. I also enjoy learning Complex Analysis and Ergodic Theory.

Contact: irene.gil-fernandez(at)warwick.ac.uk

Academic History

• 2020 - Present: PhD, CDT in Mathematics, University of Warwick.
  • Supervisors: Hong Liu and Oleg Pikhurko.
• 2019 - 2020: Master in Mathematics and Applications, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
  • Master thesis: Lagrange inversion formula and Galton-Watson processes: probabilistic and combinatorial connections (in Spanish).
  • Supervisor: Pablo Fernández Gallardo.
• 2015 - 2019: BSc in Mathematics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
  • Bachelor thesis: The Symbolic Method in Combinatorics.
  • Supervisor: Pablo Fernández Gallardo.
• 2017 - 2018: Erasmus student at Imperial College London.

Grants

• 2020 - 2024: CDT studentship at the University of Warwick.
• 2019 - 2020: Introduction to research grant for Master students at UAM.

Preprints

• Nested cycles with no geometric crossings, with J. Kim, Y. Kim and H. Liu, 8 pages, arXiv:2104.04810.

Teaching

University of Warwick

2020 - 2021	Supervisor of two groups of first year Mathematics students	Terms 1 & 2
2020 - 2021	TA for MA241 - Combinatorics	Term 1
2020 - 2021	TA for MA397 - Consolidation	Term 1
2020 - 2021	TA for MA3J2 - Combinatorics II	Term 2