I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University, part of the Maxwell Institute.

I obtained my PhD in 2006 from Heriot-watt University, winning the Macfarlane prize for the best thesis of the year. I then held a postdoctoral position at EURANDOM, followed by an Assistant Professor position at the Technical University of Eindhoven. I spent 6 months as a Senior Researcher at EPFL, Lausanne, before joining Heriot-Watt as a member of staff in 2010.

My research is in both pure and applied probability. My main research interests may be described as mainly in

- (random) graphs and (random) processes on them

- probabilities of rare events, especially with heavy tails

- stability of stochastic processes

- stochastic models for spread of epidemics

I am theme convenor for Analysis and Probability at Heriot-Watt.

I serve as Associate Editor for Stochastic Processesa and Their Applicantions, and for Queueing Systems

In the past, I served as International Liaison and Councill Member for the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS (2023-2025)

I served on a number of Technical Programme Committees of conferences such as International Sympsium on Information Theory, Mobihoc, ITC.

I was awarded the EPSRC First grant (2014-2016).

I was also awarded several grants (from LMS, EMS, Royal Society, etc) several grants to host visitors).

I was recently awarded an LMS grant for collaboration with developing countries.

I also held (jointly with co-organisers) several grants to organise various summer schools and workshops in Edinburgh, including the Stochastic Networks meeting in 2018 and the Summer School on random graphs in 2017.

The following have been funded visiting positions for over 1 month:

- EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2015

- LAAS CNRS Toulouse, France, September-October 2023

- Bielefeld University, Germany, November-December 2025