Approaches to Geo-mathematical Modelling

Notes on Contributors

Peter Baudains is a Research Associate at the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from UCL in 2015 and worked for five years on the EPSRC-funded ENFOLDing project, contributing to a wide range of research projects. His research interests are in the development and application of novel analytical techniques for studying complex social systems, with a particular attention on crime, rioting and terrorism. He has authored research articles appearing in journals such as Criminology, Applied Geography, Policing and the European Journal of Applied Mathematics.

Janina Beiser obtained her PhD in the Department of Political Science at University College London. During her PhD, she was part of the security workstream of the ENFOLDing project at UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis for three years. Her research is concerned with the contagion of armed civil conflict as well as with government repression. She is now a Research Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.

Steven R. Bishop is a Professor of Mathematics at University College London, where he has been since arriving in 1984 as a postdoctoral researcher. He published over 150 academic papers, edited books and has had appearances on television and radio. Historically, his research investigated topics such as chaos theory, reducing vibrations of engineering structures and how sand dunes are formed, but he has ...