People
If you are interested in joining our research group as a student, then please get in touch (c.postlethwaite@auckland.ac.nz). A list of projects for prospective students is available here.
Current Collaborators
Peter Ashwin (University of Exeter)
Matthew Egbert (University of Auckland)
Cris Hasan (University of Glasgow)
William Godsoe (Lincoln University)
Vivien Kirk (University of Auckland)
Dion O'Neale (University of Auckland)
Hinke Osinga (University of Auckland)
Alastair Rucklidge (University of Leeds)
Rob Sturman (University of Leeds)
Research students
Current PhD students
David Groothuizen Dijkema, 2022-2025. Thesis topic: Symmetric Heteroclinic Networks and Dynamical Dependence on Topology, co-supervised with Vivien Kirk.
Morgan Meertens, 2019-2023. Thesis topic: Spike-adding in systems with folded saddles, co-supervised with Vivien Kirk.
Yan Kolezhitskiy, 2019-2023. Thesis topic: Metabolism-based behaviour, protocells, and the origins of life, co-supervised with Matthew Egbert.
Mario Zarco, 2018-2023. Thesis topic: Sensorimotor behaviour at different scales: from social interaction to the role of culture, co-supervised with Matthew Egbert and Chris Erb.
Valerie Jeong, 2018-2022. Thesis topic: Heteroclinic networks and evolutionary robotics, co-supervised with Matthew Egbert
Adrian Cervantes, 2017-2022. Co-supervised with Dion O'Neale.
Current Honours students
Thomas Bailie, 2021. Dissertation topic: Dynamics of a Braitenburg Vehicle, co-supervised with Matthew Egbert
Yaqi Li, 2021. Dissertation topic: Networks in physical space and phase space.
Past research students
PhD Students
2021 Gray Manicom "Heteroclinic networks in models of task switching"
2018 Rebecca Turner "Mathematical modelling of animal navigation"
2016 Andrew Keane “Conceptual models of the El Nino Southern Oscillation”
2015 Anup Purewal “Global effects of Pyragas time-delayed feedback control”
2014 Pingyu Nan “Dynamical Systems analysis of biophysical models with multiple timescales”
MSc Students
2020 Riley Knoedler "Modeling pollination outcomes for bird-pollinated plants in the presence of invasive flora in New Zealand"
2018 Valerie Jeong “Evolutionary robotics and dynamical systems”
2018 Nidia Jackson “Evolutionary robotics and dynamical systems”
2016 Ben Aitkens “Mathematical models of pelagic bird movement”
BSc Honours Students
2021 David Groothuizen Dijkema "Heteroclinic networks in a four-species interaction model with diffusion"
2019 Penghao Liu "Heteroclinic networks in a five-species interaction model"
2018 Nelson Wong "Time delay in evolutionary robotics"
2011 Mengzhe Zhang “Random work models of individual possum movement”
2011 Amnie Mohd Johan “Modelling animal movement”
2010 Tengku Abdul Raham Husna “A mathematical model for pigeon navigation”
2010 Chunyan Li “Resonance in heteroclinic cycles and networks”