Research

Publications and preprints: please see my Google Scholar profile.

If you want to discuss my research or a potential collaboration, please email me at mag84+at+cam.ac.uk

I work in the mathematical and evolutionary epidemiology of infectious diseases (usually viruses). For my PhD, I am looking at cross-scale pathogen evolution towards antigenic escape. One question I am interested in is how does immunity from vaccines or past infections affect the evolutionary dynamics of a virus? This is inspired by COVID-19, but the aim is for this work to be useful in future pandemics. I try to keep my models simple and mathematically tractable.

One of my motivations for working on infectious disease epidemiology is to reduce the risk from catastrophic pandemics.

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In my masters, I looked at cross-scale (spatial) epidemic modelling. I used techniques of statistical physics and field theory, such as the renormalization group (RG).

My past research interests were in fundamental physics, particularly in theoretical early-universe cosmology. I did an undergraduate research project in inflationary correlators.

Before that, I also did an undergraduate research project in population dynamics, looking at persister cells. Although in a different subfield of mathematical biology, this project turned out to be fairly related to my PhD.