Brief Vita:

1. •2020: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
   

2. •2007-present: Professor of Physics, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham
   

3. •2007: Pitzer Visiting Professor, Dept. Chemistry, UC Berkeley
   

4. •2006-07: Reader, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham
   

5. •2003-08: EPSRC Advanced Fellow
   

6. •2003-06: Lecturer, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham
   

7. •2000-03: Glasstone Fellow, University of Oxford
   

8. •2000-02: Lecturer in Physics, Balliol College, Oxford
   

9. •1998-2000: Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Oxford
   

10. •1997: PhD in Physics, Buenos Aires
    

11. •1992-93: Research Visitor, Theoretical Physics, Oxford
    

12. •1992: Licenciado in Physics, Buenos Aires
    

Research:

1. •Statistical physics of supercooled liquids and glasses
   

2. •Glass transitions and dynamic arrest
   

3. •Quantum non-equilibrium systems
   

4. •Large deviation theory
   

5. •Statistical mechanics of machine learning
   

Publications

Seminars

Machine Learning in Science (MLiS) MSc

Centre for Quantum Non-Equilibrium Systems (CQNE)

Teaching & admin 2023-24:

1. •Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
   

2. •PGT Senior Tutor
   

3. •Director MLiS Initiative
   

4. •PHYS4035 Machine Learning in Science part 1
   

PhD students:

(EPSRC funded unless stated)

1. •Konstantinos Sfairopoulos 2021-
   

2. •George Bakewell-Smith 2021- (M. Guta, Maths, co-supervisor)
   

3. •Jamie Mair 2019-2023 (now MLiS Fellow)
   

4. •Luke Causer 2019-2022 (now EPSRC Plus Fellow)
   

5. •Joe Wilkinson 2018-2022 (now at Tübingen)
   

6. •Loredana Vasiloiu 2016-2020 (EU VC scholarship; now at Stockholm)
   

7. •Dominic Rose 2015-2019 (now UCL)
   

8. •Tom Oakes 2014-2018 (S. Powell, co-supervisor)
   

9. •Katarzyna Macieszczak 2012-2016 (then Cambridge, now faculty at Warwick)
   

10. •R. Turner 2012-2016
    

11. •James Hickey, 2011-2014
    

12. •Mengchen Pu, 2009-2013 (iHPC; J. Hirst, Chemistry, co-supervisor)
    

13. •Antonia Mey, 2007-2012 (now faculty at Edinburgh)
    

14. •Douglas Ashton, 2004-2008
    

15. •Lester Hedges, 2004-2007
    

16. •Steve Whitelam, Oxford 2001-2004 (now Senior Scientist, LBNL Berkeley)
    

Postdocs:

(EPSRC funded unless stated)

1. •Jamie Mair 2023- (MLiS Fellow)
   

2. •Cecilia De Fazio 2021-2024
   

3. •Federico Girotti 2021-2023 (joint with Maths; now faculty at Milan)
   

4. •Stefano Marcantoni 2020-2022 (now at Trieste)
   

5. •Andreas Geissler 2020-2022 (Leopoldina fellow)
   

6. •Dominic Rose, 2019-2021 (now at UCL)
   

7. •Edward Gillman, 2018- (MLiS Fellow)
   

8. •Tom Oakes, 2018-2020 (EPSRC Plus fellow)
   

9. •Filippo Gambetta, 2017-2020 (now at Phasecraft)
   

10. •Federico Carollo, 2016-2020 (now at Tübingen)
    

11. •Carlos Perez Espigares, 2016-2018 (now faculty at Granada)
    

12. •Pietro Rotondo 2016-2018 (MSC fellow)
    

13. •Ricardo Gutiérrez, 2015-2017 (now faculty at Madrid)
    

14. •Merlijn van Horssen, 2014-2016 (EPSRC Plus fellow)
    

15. •Katarzyna Macieszczak, 2016-2018 (then Cambridge, now faculty at Warwick)
    

16. •Emanuele Levi, 2013-2017
    

17. •Michael Hush, 2013-2014
    

18. •Jorge Velazquez, 2012-2013 (EPSRC/Conacyt)
    

19. •Sam Genway, 2011-2014 (Leverhulme)
    

20. •Beatriz Olmos, 2010-2012 (Ramón Areces fellow, now faculty at Tübingen)
    

21. •Yasser Loscar, 2010-2011 (CONICET fellow)
    

22. •Rob Jack, Oxford 2003-2006 (now faculty at Cambridge)