Jane Peltier is a PhD candidate in Disordered Systems in the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London, under the supervision of Dr Rosalba Garcia Millan and Prof Benjamin Doyon. She is the Mathematics PhD Equality, Diversity and Inclusion student representative.

She discovered the field of active matter during her Mary Lister McCammon summer research fellowship at Imperial College London in 2023, and is now researching emergent dynamics in living systems by investigating the thermodynamics of information processing with Doi-Peliti field theory and studying the hydrodynamics of active matter.

Jane just graduated from an MSc in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London, during which she received the Marjorie McDermott Scholarship and was awarded the best project prize for her master’s thesis on Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation with Chemical Reactions and Nonreciprocity, conducted under the supervision of Dr Thibault Bertrand.

She previously completed a BSc in Mathematics and Economics with a minor in Computational Mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique in France, for which she was awarded the Excellence Scholarship. She received the Maryam Mirzakhani Junior Jury’s Distinction from the Mathematics Foundation Jaques Hadamard for her Bachelor Thesis on Modelling marine phytoplankton blooms with stochastic birth and death processes, conducted under the supervision of Prof Sylvie Meleard and Prof Regis Ferriere. She also was a visiting undergraduate student at Harvard University in 2022.

Thesis

Uncovering New Dynamics of Active Matter: from Micro to Macro Scales

Research interests

• Non-equilibrium Pattern Formation
• Active Matter
• Stochastic Modelling for Living Systems
• Field Theory
• Soft matter
• Biophysics

PhD supervision

First supervisor: Dr Rosalba Garcia Millan

Second supervisor: Prof Benjamin Doyon