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Dr Alexander Watson

PositionLecturer
Phone (external)+44(0)20 7679 1867
Phone (internal)41867
Email(*)alexander.watson
Personal webpagehttps://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakwat/
ThemesGeneral Theory and Methodology

* @ucl.ac.uk

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Biographical Details

I did my PhD in the Probability Laboratory at the University of Bath, under the supervision of Andreas E. Kyprianou. In 2013 and early 2014, I was a postdoc at CIMAT, and from there I went on to the University of Zürich where I worked in the group of Jean Bertoin, until 2015, when I moved to the University of Manchester. In 2019, I joined the Department of Statistical Science at University College London. He/him pronouns.

Research Interests

Lévy processes and applications, optimal control and stopping problems, models of fragmentation and growth, branching processes.

Selected publications

Please see https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakwat/#papers.