Aleksandra Aloric , Silvia Bartolucci and Barbara Bravi are PhD students in the Disordered

Systems group, King's College Mathematics department. Their common scientific interests consist of statistical physics approaches to complex systems, i.e. systems composed of many correlated elements. Applications of this type of research range from quantitative biology to materials science to socio­economics.

 

Aleksandra comes from Serbia, where she graduated from University of Belgrade with a Master’s degree in Physics. She joined Disordered Systems group as a PhD student in autumn 2012. Her research focuses on collective behaviour in financial and biological systems, such as herding of traders or emergence of new species. Particularly, as most of her work relies on Game Theory, she likes playing games, and learning through games, but also creating games to inspire learning. She is a big fan of informal science education ­learning at unusual spaces ­ museums, festivals, pubs... Before coming to London, she worked for Belgrade Science Festival for which she co­authored couple of outreach exhibitions such as “Physics over the rainbow” and "Physical Music Festival".

 

 

Silvia has been a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at King's College London since 2012. She did her BSc in Physics and her MSc in Theoretical Physics at Sapienza University of Rome , where she had the opportunity to learn about Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. Her current research project focuses on the mathematical modelling of the adaptive immune system using statistical mechanics tools. In particular she models the random interactions between different types of lymphocytes and cells giving rise to immune responses to understand the mechanism regulating our immune system. She is also passionate about teaching and engaging young people with the beauty and magic of Physics and Maths.

 

 

Barbara is Italian and studied Theoretical Physics at the university of Bologna before starting her PhD at King's College London in 2012. She is awarded a Marie Curie fellowship as Early Stage Researcher in the european network Netadis, which supports her first experiences in scientific outreach. Her present research projects focus on mathematical models for dynamics of biological processes, such as metabolism and genetic regulation inside cells: Barbara is actually extremely fascinated by the role of randomness in these microscopic systems, the building blocks of life. She is also deeply convinced that creativity has common roots and displays very similar features in science and art. They are both ways of manipulating languages or combining pre­existing symbols to extract some originality. They are both driven by a concept of beauty, thus they can both rely on visual means for an effective outcome.