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John Aaltio (October 2025 - present)
I am a PhD student interested in understanding the morphology of branched structures in biology, particularly of neuronal and glial cells, using simulations inspired by the physics of branching random walks. I am also exploring tools from topological data analysis such as persistent homology and the topological morphology descriptor, which aim to quantify the shape of data via methods from algebraic topology. I would like to understand how effective these techniques are for feature detection and parameter extraction, and what modifications can be made to these tools to improve their effectiveness.

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