Oliver Tough

I am a probabilist whose work concerns the behaviour of various types of stochastic process. My research focuses on the following inter-connected areas: interacting particle systems, branching processes, absorbed Markov processes and their quasi-stationary distributions, piecewise-deterministic Markov processes, population genetics, and applications to radiation transport. 

Since September 2024, I have been an Assistant Professor of Probability at the University of Durham. I was previously a Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bath, working with Alexander Cox as part of the EPSRC Mathrad project. Before that, I spent two years as a postdoc at the Université de Neuchâtel, working with Michel Benaïm. I completed my PhD at Duke University in 2021, supervised by James Nolen. 

I will be hosting the LMS celebrating new appointments workshop ``Emerging Connections Between Branching Processes, Quasi-Stationary Distributions, and Front Propagation'' on 18th August, 2025 in Durham.  

https://sites.google.com/view/olivertoughnewappointments/home

Contact information:

E-mail: fjwd57@durham.ac.uk

Address: Durham University Upper Mountjoy Campus, Stockton Rd, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK