Ellen Powell
About Me
I am an Associate Professor at Durham University in the Probability and Statistics group.
I currently hold a UKRI future leaders fellowship .
Before this I was a postdoc in the Probability group at ETH Zürich, and I completed my PhD in the Cambridge Centre for Analysis under the supervision of Nathanaël Berestycki.
I'm also head coach at Durham Triathlon Club .
My research is in probability theory, with motivation coming from statistical physics models.
PhD students: Léonie Papon, Charlie Hall
Postdocs: Leandro Chiarini, Irene Ayuso Ventura
I'm involved with organising the following programmes/conferences/workshops.
UK Easter Probability Meeting to be held in Durham, UK from 31st March-4th April 2025
Hausdorff Insitute Trimester Programme on Probabilistic methods in quantum field theory to be held in Bonn, Germany from 5th May-15th August 2025
Ellen-Master.MOVA video portrait made for the goMATH – Women in Mathematics exhibition hosted by ETH Zürich, 11-22 March 2019