PhD and MSc students

Jessica Allen

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study: Advanced Hidden Markov Models for the Analysis and Prediction of Low Frequency Earthquakes

Supervisor: Ting Wang

Email: allje831@student.otago.ac.nz  

Pedro Barboza Rossetto

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Relativistic Magnetic Accretion on Neutron Stars and Gravitational Wave Generation     (See more)

Supervisor: Jörg Frauendiener

Email: prossetto@maths.otago.ac.nz  

Josh Bardwell

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study: Asymptotic solutions for classical two-phase Stefan problems on planar domains.

Supervisor: Robert Van Gorder

Email: barjo848@student.otago.ac.nz  

Joel Carman

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study:

Supervisor: —

Email: carjo970@student.otago.ac.nz  

Taylor Hamlin

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Movement and breeding ecology of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) in the Ross Sea     (See more)

Supervisor: Matthew Schofield

Email: hamta777@student.otago.ac.nz  

Jie Kang

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Multi Allelic Genotyping-By-Sequencing (MA-GBS) to improve genomic selection models in forage     (See more)

Supervisor: Phillip Wilcox

Email: kanji709@student.otago.ac.nz  

Shabina Khalid

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

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Alastair Lamont

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Estimation of genetic breeding values: Development of a missing data approach, with comparison to established literature models     (See more)

Supervisor: Matthew Schofield

Email: alamont@maths.otago.ac.nz  

Yiming Ma

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Mathematical and statistical modeling of slow slip events     (See more)

Supervisor: Fabien Montiel

Email: mayi3318@student.otago.ac.nz  

Bethany MacDonald

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study:     (See more)

Supervisor: —

Email: macbe375@student.otago.ac.nz  

Nico Mokus

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Large scale modelling of waves and sea ice interactions in the marginal ice zone

Supervisor: Fabien Montiel

Email: mokni923@student.otago.ac.nz  

Lara Najim

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study: Space weather forecasting using Hidden Markov models     (See more)

Supervisor: Ting Wang

Email: najla197@student.otago.ac.nz  

Lilac Pons

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study: Simulating ocean waves in the Ross Sea marginal ice zone using WaveWatch III

Supervisor: Fabien Montiel

Email: ponai238@student.otago.ac.nz  

Anna Redmond

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Spatial models for muscle fibre data     (See more)

Supervisor: Tilman Davies

Email: redan738@student.otago.ac.nz  

Joshua Ritchie

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Numerical study of stable big bang formation.

Supervisor: Florian Beyer

Email: ritjo945@student.otago.ac.nz  

Matthew Slattery Holmes

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study:

Supervisor: —

Email: slama077@student.otago.ac.nz  

Jandre Snyman

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study:

Supervisor: David Bryant

Email: snyja081@student.otago.ac.nz  

Lydia Turley

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Mathematical Models for Fungal Population Genetics     (See more)

Supervisor: David Bryant

Email: turly826@student.otago.ac.nz  

Salvatore Vultaggio

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

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Yue Wang

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study: Population genetics is the study of properties of biological populations using genetic data from a sample of individuals from the populations. Mathematical models form the bridge which connects the genetic data to the conclusions that biologists are interested in. Fungi have weird lifecycles and mating patterns which violate a number of assumptions on which standard population genetic models are built. I am working on deriving population genetic models tailored to fungi. I will investigate how and where these lead to different results than the standard models, and test their practical application to local populations of Amanita muscaria.

Supervisor: Matthew Parry

Email: wanyu368@student.otago.ac.nz  

Ben Wilks

Studying for Doctor of Philosophy

Area of study: Rainbow Trapping in Water Waves     (See more)

Supervisor: Fabien Montiel

Email: wilbe612@student.otago.ac.nz  

Natasha Windermeyer

Studying for Master of Science

Area of study:

Supervisor: Phillip Wilcox

Email: winna661@student.otago.ac.nz  

Diploma and Honours students

Albert Baeumer

Studying for Honours

Email: baeal712@student.otago.ac.nz