Research grant projects and collaborations

 Currently funded projects

• QMUL - HUST Strategic Partner Fund. Project Titled 'Interdisciplinary Research on Stochastic Dynamics and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics'. QM PI Christian Beck. HUST PI Jinqiao Duan. Total QM award £5000.

• QMUL Research England Policy Impact Project titled ‘Air pollution statistics and water quality monitoring: Effects of concentration fluctuations on policy design’. PI Christian Beck. Total award £49,974.

• The Leverhulme Trust, Research Project Grant, Lower bounds for Lyapunov exponents, PI Ian Morris, 2020 - 2022. The value of this award is £132,133. 

Other funded projects

• EPSRC, Standard Grant, Transfer operator methods for modelling high-frequency wave fields - advancements through modern functional and numerical analysis, PI Oscar Bandtlow, Co-Is Wolfram Just, David Chappell (Nottingham Trent University), Gregor Tanner (The University of Nottingham), 2018 - 2021. The total value of this award is £793,623, with £436,701 at QMUL.
• Horizon 2020, MSCA Individual Fellowship, With data-driven modelling towards a successful energy transition, PI Christian Beck, Fellow Benjamin Schaefer, 2019 - 2021. The value of this award is £170,347.
• Office of Naval Research Global, Advanced search strategies in anomalous dynamics: Models, Methods, Applications, PI Rainer Klages, 2017 - 2019. The value of the award is £87,052. 
• EPSRC, Standard Grant, Nash equilibria for load balancing in networked power systems, PI Christian Beck, Co-I Vito Latora. 2016 - 2019, The value of this award is £621,726.
• Impact Acceleration Account (EPSRC), Devolved funding, PI Christian Beck, 2018-19, The value of this award is £5,000.
• Office of Naval Research Global, Anomalous dynamics in complex systems: From chaos on nanoscales to search in biology, PI Rainer Klages, 2017. The value of the award is £16,800.
• The Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellowship, Nodal domain statistics, spectral geometry and random matrix theory, PI Chris Joyner, 2015 - 2018. The value of this award is £72,000. 
• Max Planck Society, Statistical physics and anomalous dynamics of foraging (Rainer Klages). July 2015 - June 2016, value 80K.
• EPSRC, A Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for simulating phase transitions in dense polymer systems (Thomas Prellberg). Sept 2014 - Sept 2016, value 261K.
• EPSRC, Optimal Packing and Hitting (Oliver Jenkinson). Aug 2014 - July 2017, value 312K.
• EPSRC, Optimizing particle packings by shape variation (Adrian Baule). June 2014 - May 2016, value 100K.
• EPSRC, Flood MEMORY Multi-event modelling of risk and recovery (Christian Beck). Jan 2013 - May 2016, value 1.76 Mio (QMUL part: 200K).
• EPSRC, Insights into Disordered Landscapes via Random Matrix Theory and Statistical Mechanics (Yan Fyodorov). Jan 2012 - March 2016, value 366K.
• EPSRC, Reflect: A feasibility study in exerienced utility and travel behaviour (Rosemary Harris). Oct 2011 - March 2015, value 781K (QMUL part: 60K). 

International collaborations

The Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics group has a strong network of international contacts and active collaborations, with scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems Dresden, TU Berlin, Univ of Austin Texas, KFA Juelich, Rockefeller University New York, City College New York, New York University, Univ Melbourne, McGill University Montreal, Stellenbosch, Saarbruecken Univ, UNSW Sydney, CBPF Rio de Janeiro, Paris-Sud (Orsay), Vienna Univ, and more.