VITA

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I’m a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (UK), in the Condensed Matter Theory group led by Juan P. Garrahan.

Research: I develop theory and tools to understand—and exploit—fluctuations and rare events in self-interacting stochastic systems. My goal is to turn rare events into a resource for learning and control, designing reinforcement-learning strategies that are bolstered by `extremes' rather than hindered by them.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the same group at the University of Nottingham, and before that a postdoctoral fellow at Nordita (Stockholm) in the group led by John S. Wettlaufer. I received my PhD in October 2021 from Queen Mary University of London, working on large deviations with Rosemary J. Harris.

I’m fascinated by random systems and structures—especially how noise and chaos can lead into rare, ordered patterns. Lately, my work probes the interplay of stochasticity, memory, and reinforcement, with the aim of turning rare events into usable signal for learning and control.

Here are a few keywords related to my research and extra-academic interests:

• Fluctuations dynamics
• Large deviation theory
• Rare events
• Out-of-equilibrium physics
• Self-interacting processes
• Stochastic control
• Reinforcement learning
• Finance

Hobbies

I like bikepacking, swimming, kneading, crime board games, reading and spending time with friends.

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