Dr Alex Giles

Alex is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at UCL, working on the LINKS project. His interests are in statistical physics, complex networks, and random graphs, with applications in theoretical physics, econophysics, climate science, wireless communications, and complex engineering systems. His main speciality is the statistical physics of spatial networks.

Alex graduated with an MSci in Physics from the University of Bristol in 2011, then completed a 4 year PhD in the CDT in Communications, also at the University of Bristol, with Prof. Carl Dettmann in the School of Mathematics. His thesis studied an aspect of 5G/future wireless networks known as ad hoc communications, where devices self-organise without using any pre-established infrastructure. He then worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Mathematics, again at Bristol, on random geometric graphs with Prof. Dettmann and Prof. Mathew Penrose via an EPSRC grant, then completing postdocs at Hanyang University in Seoul with Prof. Sunwoo Kim, The Max Plank Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig with Prof. Jürgen Jost, and NTU in Sinagpore with Prof. Nicolas Privault, among two research visits at Queen Mary University of London in the complex systems and networks group with Prof. Ginestra Bianconi and Dr Vincenzo Nicosia, working on random topology, random graphs, and the dynamics of the Kuramoto model. He now works on the structure and dynamics of investor networks for the LINKS project at UCL.

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