Research interests:

mathematical modelling of
   cancer stem cells and self-metastatic tumor morphology
   early tumor growth dynamics and morphological evolution
   cancer stem cells and tumor morphological evolution
   stem cell mutations (i.e. loss of heterozygosity in tumor suppressor genes)
   tumorigenesis
   tumor growth and invasion in irregular domains
   surgery and radiotherapy treatment strategies for localised tumors
   invadopodia formation and extra-cellular matrix interaction
   irradiation induced DNA - double strand breaks
and
   computational simulations
   visualization of systems of PDEs and mathematical models in higher dimensions (3D - 4D)

 
Honours and Awards:

• 2008: American Association for Cancer Research Centennial Postdoctoral Fellow for Cancer Research
• 2007: British Oncology Association Young Investigator Poster Prize Award, awarded at the 3rd NCRI conference
• SIAM travel award to attend the ICIAM07
• 2006: Scottish International Educational Trust (SIET) travel award
• SMB Landahl Travel Grant to attend the joint SMB/SIAM conference on the life sciences
• European Commission young researcher travel award to attend the Euroconference in Crete: Which Mathematics for Biology?
• 2005: Pilot Study Poster Award, Cancer Research UK,
  Mathematical Modelling of different radiotherapy strategies
• ESMTB scholarship to attend the 5th ECMTB conference of the society
• 2003: Prize for Best Poster, The Society for Mathematical Biology,
  Visualization and Simulation of Solid Tumour Invasion in Irregular Domains
• 2003: University of Dundee Nicholl-Lindsay PhD Scholarship

 
I am a manuscript referee for peer review for the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Medicine & Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Frontiers in Bioscience, PLOS Computational Biology and Cancer Research.

 
Media appearance:

• Cancer Systems Biology Researcher awarded $180,000 to study intrinsic tumor dynamics
• Dundee students win travel scholarships
• Mathematician and surgeon awarded £20,000 for collaborative cancer research
• Model method adds up to better treatment for cancer sufferers

Previous projects:

Automated tracking of moving cells diploma project at the University of Magdeburg
Implementation of graphical packages for the visualization of numerical analysis ODE and PDE solver, and visualization of the results
Volume rendering surface extraction from medical data sets
Web Design implementation and design of web pages
Sport science motion analysis capture of three dimensional movements in various sport disciplines
3D computer vision - stereovision regeneration of 3D information from two 2D images (taken from slightly different angles as from two eyes) using block matching
My Personal Town - live events webpage dynamic web design using Flash; example of an interactive live events database (German only)
MedView - Software Engineering visualization of cell patterns using automatically generated stacks of images
Raytracing develop a raytracer using c++ and generate own images