See here for publications.

Academic appointments

Sept 2021 – present
Postdoc: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
In the respective groups of Silvia De Monte (Dynamics of Microbial Collectives) and Arne Traulsen (Dynamics, Ecology, and Evolution of Populations)

Education

Sept 2017 – Aug 2021
PhD in Physics: University of Edinburgh, UK
Thesis: Exact solutions to the long-time statistics of nonequilibrium processes
Advisors: Martin Evans, Richard Blythe

Aug 2012 – June 2017
MSc & BSc in Engineering Physics: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Master Thesis: Construction of equilibrium distributions from simulation of nonequilibrium processes with feedback control
First semester 2016 at the National University of Singapore

Professional activities

2024 and forward
Co-organizer & Lecturer: “INTP Spring/Summer School on Mathematical Theory in Community Ecology”, Surba, France
This school, initiated and hosted by the Institut Natura e Teoria Pirenèus (INTP), offers an overview of community ecology for interdisciplinary theoreticians from Master’s level and up. The lecture materials have been crafted in a collaborative fashion by our team of researchers working on both sides of the interface between physics and community ecology, with the aim to unify and synthesize perspectives. The first edition of the school was held in May 2025 (programme) with the second edition planned for July 2026.

July 2023
Principal organizer: “Microbial community ecology: bridging theory and observations”, MPI Plön, Germany
The aim of this 3-day workshop was to integrate insights from across different perspectives and methodologies in microbial community ecology (programme). Organized by myself, Silvia De Monte, and several international peers for 40 attending scientists, my responsibilities included setting the scientific agenda, budgeting, inviting/selecting participants, and moderating talk sessions.

2020 - 2021
Co-organizer & Host: “Statistical Physics and Complexity Webinar Series”
I took part in refactoring a regular group meeting for the statistical physics group in Edinburgh into an open webinar series during the Corona pandemic. The series has become well established in the field.

2018 – 2020
Teaching assistant: University of Edinburgh, Physics & Astronomy
Courses: Linear Algebra and Several Variable Calculus, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Statistical Physics (Honours), Advanced Statistical Physics (Honours)

Conference participation (selection)

  • July 2025: STATPHYS29, Florence, Italy. Contributed talk: “How fluctuating growth rates make species-rich communities uneven”
  • July 2024: Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE24), Vienna, Austria. Invited talk, Macroecology session: “Turnover of rare and abundant species due to unstructured ecological differences”
  • Feb 2024: Modeling on Ecology and Evolution Workshop, Inha, Korea. Invited talk: “A statistical physics perspective on rare and abundant species”,
  • Aug 2023: STATPHYS28, Tokyo, Japan. Contributed talk: “Chaotic species abundance turnover in a strongly interacting ecosystem”

Peer reviewer for Science; PNAS; J. Theor. Biol.; Phys. Rev. Lett.; PLOS Comp. Biol.; PLOS Complex Systems; J. Phys.: Complexity; J. Phys A; J. Stat. Mech.; Soft Matter