Oct 2004 - present: Professor of Statistical Mechanics in the Department of Mathematics.
Sep 2002 - Sep 2004: Reader in the Department of Mathematics.
Nov 1999 - Aug 2002 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Group, Department of Mathematics, King's College London
Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics.
Working on: disorder effects in soft condensed matter (rheology, polydispersity), spin glass theory (links to quantum coding), general models of out-of-equilibrium dynamics (kinetically constrained spin chains, effective temperatures), and theory of learning processes and algorithms (Gaussian processes, Support Vector Machines).
Oct 1998 - Oct 1999: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Group, Department of Mathematics, King's College London, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow.
Working on: disorder effects in soft condensed matter (rheology, polydispersity), general models of slow dynamics (kinetically constrained spin chains), and theory of learning processes (Gaussian processes, online learning).
Nov 1995 - Sep 1998: Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow.
Working on: disorder effects, metastability and glassy dynamics (non-equilibrium statistical mechanics) in soft condensed matter.
Oct 1992 - Sep 1995 Theory Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Ph.D. on `Asking intelligent questions - The statistical mechanics of query learning'.
Working on: statistical mechanics of disordered systems applied to neural network learning.
Oct 1991 - Nov 1992 Theory of Condensed Matter, Department of Physics, Cambridge University
M.Phil. on `Fluctuations and Rigid Unit Modes in Framework Structures'.
Working on statistical mechanics of fluctuation effects in phase transitions
Apr 1989 - Sep 1991 Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany
Studying undergraduate physics, maths and chemistry.