Presentations & scholarship 

Conferences, presentations, seminars, lectures & scholarship (from 2007)

• 9-12 July 2024: International L24EEDs workshop “Mathematical modelling of microbial communities: cooperation, dynamics, and resistance” to be held in the Leeds School of Mathematics, see the poster. All relevant info can be found on the website: https://eedfp.com/l24eeds-workshop/

• June 2024: Invited Seminar at the Sustainable Ecosystems & Adaptation / Ecology & Evolution meeting, Leeds School of Biology

• 28-31 May 2024: Talk at the Conference "Stochastic Models and Experiments in Ecology and Biology 2024", L'Aquila, Italy. "Evolution of cooperative antimicrobial resistance under coupled demographic and environmental fluctuations".

• 6-9 February 2024: Invited talk (L. Hernández-Navarro) at DSABNS 2024, 15th Conference on Dynamical Systems Applied to Biology and Natural Sciences, Lisbon. "Coupled environmental and demographic fluctuations shape the evolution of cooperative antimicrobial resistance".

• 26 January 2024: PALAEO@Leeds Symposium, Leeds, invited talk, "Coexistence, Dynamics, Cooperation & Resistance in Microbial Communities".

• From 1/1/2024: Member of the Royal Society’s Newton International Fellowships Committee

• 18-20 September 2023: Research visit to the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and invited mathematical biology seminar, "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbial Populations in Fluctuating Environments".

• 18-19 September 2023: Poster presentation (M. Asker) at the London Mathematical Biology Conference, London. "Coexistence of Competing Microbial Strains under Twofold Environmental Variability and Demographic Fluctuations". 

• 15-17 September 2023: Invited speaker at the Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Complex Systems, "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbial Populations: The Role of Fluctuations", and Research visit to the Virginia Tech, USA.

• 13-14 September 2023: Research visit to the New York University, USA, and invited applied mathematics seminar at Courant Institute, "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Populations in Fluctuating Environments".

• 11-12 September 2023: Research visit to the MIT and invited biophysics seminar, "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Microbial Populations in Fluctuating Environments".

• 23 May 2023: Inaugural lecture, "Dynamics of fluctuating populations of bacteria and voters": abstract and slides.

• 2023/24: Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical on "Non-equilibrium Dynamics in Complex Systems". 

• April 2023: Invited Seminar at the Department of Mathematics of the University of St Andrews, "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Fluctuating Populations".

• April 2023: Contributed talk (L. Hernández-Navarro) at the 2023 British Applied Mathematics Colloquium in Bristol, "Coupled Environmental and Demographic Fluctuations Shape the Evolution of Cooperative Antimicrobial Resistance".

• March 2023: Invited speaker and session co-chair at the IoP Conference on Physics of Life, "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Fluctuating Populations".

• March 2023: Member of the EPSRC small grants panel.

• October 2022: Contributed talk (L. Hernández-Navarro) at the workshop "Microbial communities: current approaches and open challenges" at the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK). "Eco-Evolutionary dynamics of cooperative antimicrobial resistance".

• September 2022: Poster presentation (L. Hernández-Navarro) at the 12th European Conference in Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Heidelberg, Germany, 19-23 September 2022. "Eco-Evolutionary dynamics of cooperative antimicrobial resistance".

• Sept. 2022: Interview for an Open Case Research Study on the project "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Fluctuating Populations". (PDF of the case studies.)

• June 2022: Contributed talk (L. Hernández-Navarro) at the conference "Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution (MPDEE 2022)" in Turin (Italy), "Eco-Evolutionary dynamics of cooperative antimicrobial resistance".

• October 2021: Workshop on Sociophysics: Social Phenomena from a Physics Perspective (online, orognally planned in Sao Paulo in April 2020), “How does homophily and heterophily shape the topology of preferred-degree networks?”

• April 2021: Mathematical Population Dynamics, Ecology and Evolution, MPDEE21 (online), "Evolution of a Fluctuating Population in a Changing Environment: Random versus Periodic Switching"

• August 2020: Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, SMB2020 (online), "Population Dynamics in a switching environment: random vs. periodic"

• August 2020: Microbial Ecology & Evolution: MEE Virtual (online), "Population Dynamics in a switching environment: random vs. periodic”

• September 2019: Workshop on "Evolution of interacting populations", Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany. Talk: "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Randomly Switching Environments".

• August 2019: Invited seminar at the Department of Fundamental Biology University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• July 2019: Organization of the international L19EEDs workshop on "Fluctuations, tippings points and emergence ine co-evolutionary dynamics'' University of Leeds.

• June 2018: Invited Research Visit to the Jacobs University of Bremen.

• March 2018: British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2018, University of St Andrews:"Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in a Randomly Switching Environment: Competition & Cooperation".

• February 2018: Member of the EPSRC Mathematics prioritisation panel

• July 2017: Organisation of the CoSyDy Meeting on "Network Dynamics and Structure", University of Leeds: Programme. Abstracts of the talks.

• Jan. 2017: Invited seminar by the Dynamics and Control Group at the University of Exeter.

• Nov. 2016: Invited to speak at LSFrey's Group Seminar at Arnold Sommerfeld Center, University LMU Munich: "The influence of fluctuating selection and facilitators on the prisoner's dilemma".

• Sept. 2016: Invited Speaker at the LSFrey annual retreat in Antholz.

• July 2016: Speaker at the STATPHYS26 Meeting in Lyon: "Nonlinear q-Voter Models with Zealotry: Switching Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Steady State".

• July 2016: Invited Speaker at the "Workshop Evolution, Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory" in Munich.

• May 2016: Invited Speaker at the Meeting "The Dynamics of Complex Systems: A meeting in honour of the 60th birthday of Robert MacKay FRS" in Warwick: "Switching dynamics and non-equilibrium steady state in nonlinear q-voter models with zealotry".

• May 2016: Organization (with Jon Ward) of the LMS-funded CoSyDy Meeting on "Dynamics of Agent-Based Models" in Leeds.

• September 2015: Invited Speaker at the EPSRC Workshop on "Fluctuation-driven phenomena in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics", Warwick. "The influence of zealotry on the nonlinear q-voter model".

• July 2015: Talk at the Workshop on Modelling Change in Socio-Economic Systems of the EPSRC NetworkPlus, London. "Nonlinear q-voter model with zealots."

• May 2015: Invited seminar at the Department of Engineering Mathematics of the University of Bristol, "Spiralling patterns in evolutionary models with cyclic competition"

• May 2015: Invited seminar at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bath

• March 2015: Invited speaker at the 2015 APS March Meeting of the American Physical Society in San Antonio (Texas, USA): Abstract. Invited presentation on "spiraling patterns in evolutionary models inspired by bacterial games with cyclic dominance". Slides

• January 2015: Invited seminar at the Department of Mathematics of the Durham University, "Spiralling patterns in models inspired by bacterial games with cyclic competition"

• August-December 2014: Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences on the programme Understanding Microbial Communities; Function, Structure and Dynamics

• May 2014: Invited speaker at the Symposium on "Novel Applications of Statistical Mechanics: A Celebration of Sidney Redner's Contributions" (Sid Redner's Festschrift) in Boston: "Zealotry, persuasion and polarization in voter models".

• November 2013: Invited speaker at the CS&F Conference in Amsterdam dedicated to their Special Issue on "Collective behavior and evolutionary games": "Prisoner's dilemma in the presence of facilitators and under extrinsic noise"

• 09-13/09/2013: Invited speaker at the workshop on Models from statistical mechanics in applied sciences at Warwick:"Coexistence and Metastability in Evolutionary Games".

• From 2013: Coordinator of the School of Mathematics’ Undegraduate Summer Bursary Scheme

• June 2013: Member of the EPSRC Mathematics prioritisation panel

• June 2013: Invited Complex Systems Group seminar in York: "Large fluctuations and metastability in evolutionary games".

• June 2013: Organiser of the Complexity Systems Dynamics (CoSyDy) Meeting on "Complexity in economics and social dynamics" in Leeds

• May 2013: Invited speaker at the meeting on "Complex and emergent behaviours" in Manchester, "Large-fluctuation effects on the fixation of a deleterious allele under mutation pressure".

• May 2013: Invited speaker at the Workshop on "Interacting particle models in the physical, biological and social sciences" at Warwick,"Polarization, zealotry and persuasion in the three-party constrained voter model".

• April 2013: Invited speaker at the "complex networks mini-symposium" of the British Applied Maths Colloquium 2013: "Anomalous metastability and fixation properties of evolutionary games on scale-free networks".

• November 2012: Talk on "Polarization, commitment and persuasion in the three-party constrained voter model" in the Leeds Probability, Stochastic modelling and Financial modelling seminar series.

• September 2012: Talk on "Anomalous metastability and fixation in evolutionary games on scale-free graphs" given at the 2012 European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'12) in Brussels

• May 2012: Invited lecturer/speaker at a Postgraduate School on Complex Systems in Brussels, "Rock-paper-scissors dynamics and cyclic bacterial games: biodiversity and complex patterns"

• March 2012: Invited seminar in the Department of Mathematics at University of Surrey, "Consensus & polarization in a three-state constrained voter model"

• March 2012: Organiser of the Complexity Systems Dynamics (CoSyDy) Meeting on "Evolution and Diversity in Complex Systems" in Leeds

• November 2011: Invited Speaker at the Conference "Sociophysics: do humans behave like atoms?" (Paris): "Consensus & Polarization in a Three-State Constrained Voter Model"

• September 2011: Invited seminar in the School of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh, "Co-evolutionary dynamics of rock-paper-scissors and cyclic bacterial games"

• September 2011: Invited Speaker at "Current Trends in Game Theory" a Satellite of the 2011 European Conference on Complex Systems in Vienna: Large Fluctuations & Fixation in Evolutionary Games with Non-Vanishing Selection

• June 2011: Invited Speaker at the international meeting on "Mathematics in the Science of Complexity" in Warwick: Consensus & Polarization in Constrained Opinion Dynamics

• June 2011: Co-organisation of the IOP workshop on "Complexity of evolutionary processes in biology and the behavioural sciences" in Manchester

• 2010-2019: Organisation & coordination of the Applied Postgraduate Seminar series in the School of Mathematics at Leeds.

• Since 2010: Full Member of the EPSRC College.

• Since 2010: Chair of the Complex Systems Dynamics (CoSyDy) network

• November 2010: Organisation of a CoSyDy Meeting on "Movement in Models of Mathematical Biology" in Warwick.

• May 2010: Invited talk in the CABDyN Seminars series at Oxford on "Large fluctuations & fixation in evolutionary games with non-vanishing selection".

• February 2010: Organisation of a CoSyDy Meeting on the "Mathematics of Evolutionary Dynamics" in Warwick.

• Jan. 2010: Invited speaker at the Conference on "Non-equilibrium dynamics of spatially extended interacting particle systems" (Warwick): "Modelling biodiversity & pattern formation in communities exhibiting cyclic dominance".

• 2009-2018: Organisation & coordination of seminar series on "Mathematical Biology and Medicine"  in the School of Mathematics at Leeds.

• August 2009: Invited speaker at the Conference on "Giant Fluctuations and Population Dynamics" (Leiden): Evolutionary dynamics and pattern formation in communities exhibiting cyclic dominance. 

• April 2009: Organisation of  "Patterns in Complexity", a  PANDA (patterns formation, nonlinear dynamics and applications) meeting in Leeds.

• September 2009: Organisation of the workshop on "Statistical mechanics of molecular and cell biology" in Warwick.

• March-April 2009: Speaker at the Graduate School on "Stochastic modelling in biology" in Leeds: "Introduction to evolutionary game theory" (lecture 1, lecture 2).

• December 2007: Organisation & management of the "Postgraduate School on Mathematics of Evolutionary Dynamics" at Warwick.

• From 2007: Regular reviewer for grants submitted to the EPSRC, BBSRC, Leverhulme Trust and for 5 international bodies and agencies (research councils).

• From 2002: Referee for >40 journals specializing in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics, in theoretical physics and mathematical biology, applied mathematics, and in multidisciplinary sciences. Examples of journals for which I am a regular reviewer: Physical Review (Letters, E, X) in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics; Journal of Theoretical Biology, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology and PLoS Computational Biology in mathematical biology; Nonlinearity, Chaos and the Journal of Statistical Physics in applied mathematics; Science, Nature Communications and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface in multidisciplinary sciences.