Notes on Contributors

Peter Baudains is a Research Associate at the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from UCL in 2015 and worked for five years on the EPSRC-funded ENFOLDing project, contributing to a wide range of research projects. His research interests are in the development and application of novel analytical techniques for studying complex social systems, with a particular attention on crime, rioting and terrorism. He has authored research articles appearing in journals such as Criminology, Applied Geography, Policing and the European Journal of Applied Mathematics.

Janina Beiser obtained her PhD in the Department of Political Science at University College London. During her PhD, she was part of the security workstream of the ENFOLDing project at UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis for three years. Her research is concerned with the contagion of armed civil conflict as well as with government repression. She is now a Research Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Essex.

Steven R. Bishop is a Professor of Mathematics at University College London, where he has been since arriving in 1984 as a postdoctoral researcher. He published over 150 academic papers, edited books and has had appearances on television and radio. Historically, his research investigated topics such as chaos theory, reducing vibrations of engineering structures and how sand dunes are formed, but he has more recently worked on 'big data' and the modelling of social systems. Steven held a prestigious 'Dream' Fellowship funded by the UK Research Council (EPSRC) until December 2013, allowing him to consider creative ways to arrive at scientific narratives. He was influential in the formation of a European network of physical and social scientists in order to investigate how decision support systems can be developed to assist policy makers and, to drive this, has organised conferences in the UK and European Parliaments. He has been involved in several European Commission-funded projects and has helped to forge a research agenda which looks at the behaviour of systems that cross policy domains and country borders.

Alex Braithwaite is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, as well as a Senior Research Associate in the School of Public Policy at University College London. He obtained a PhD in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 2006 and has since held academic positions at Colorado State University, UCL, and the University of Arizona. He was a co-investigator on the EPSRC-funded ENFOLDing project between 2010 and 2013, contributing to a wide range of projects under the "security" umbrella. His research interests lie in the causes and geography of violent and nonviolent forms of political conflict and has been published in journals such as Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Peace Research, Criminology and Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Simone Caschili has a PhD in Land Engineering and Urban Planning, and after being a Research Associate at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (at University College London) and Senior Fellow of the UCL QASER Lab, is currently an Associate at LaSalle Investment Management, London. His research interests cover the modelling of urban and regional systems, property markets, spatial-temporal and economic networks and policy evaluation for planning in both transport and environmental governance.

Minette D'Lima is a researcher in the QASER (Quantitative and Applied Spatial Economics Research) Laboratory at University College London. She was trained as a pure mathematician with bachelors' degrees in Mathematics and Computer Technology, followed by a PhD in Algebraic Geometry. She works in a multidisciplinary group of mathematicians, physicists and economists providing innovative solutions to financial and economic problems. Her research covers a broad range of projects from complexity analysis and stochastic modelling to structuring portfolios in urban investments. She has been a researcher on an EPSRC Programme Grant, "SCALE: Small Changes Lead to Large Effects," and developed a discrete spatial interaction model to study the effect of transport investments on urban space. She has developed a stochastic model for quantifying resilience on a FuturICT-sponsored project, "ANTS: Adaptive Networks for Complex Transport Systems." She has also worked on developing a mathematical model using portfolio theory and agent-based modelling to simulate the agricultural supply chain in Uganda for a World Bank project, "Rethinking Logistics in Lagging Regions." She is currently working in the EPSRC Programme Grant "Liveable Cities," structuring and optimising portfolios for urban investments, and taking into account the socio-environmental impacts of such investments and their interactions.

Toby P. Davies is a Research Associate working on the Crime, Policing and Citizenship project at University College London, having previously been a member of the UCL SECReT Doctoral Training Centre. His background is in mathematics, and his work concerns the application of mathematical techniques in the analysis and modelling of crime and other security issues. His main area of interest is the spatio-temporal distribution of crime, in particular its relationship with urban form and its analysis using network-based methods.

Valerio de Martinis is Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Transport Planning and System (ETH Zurich). He is part of SCCER Mobility (Swiss Competence Center on Energy Research), and his research activities focus on energy efficiency and railway systems. He received his PhD in Transportation Systems in 2008 at the University of Naples Federico II.

Adam Dennett is a Lecturer in Urban Analytics in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He is a geographer and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has worked for a number of years in the broad area of population geography, applying quantitative techniques to the understanding of human populations; much of this involves the use of spatial interaction models to understand the migration flows of people around the UK, Europe and the world. A former secondary school teacher, Adam arrived at UCL in 2010 after completing a PhD at the University of Leeds.

Robert J. Downes is a MacArthur Fellow in Nuclear Security working at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Trained as a mathematician, Rob received his PhD in mathematics from University College London in 2014; he studied the interplay between geometry and spectral theory with applications to physical systems and gravitation. He also holds an MSci in Mathematics with Theoretical Physics awarded by UCL. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ENFOLDing project at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Rob studied the structure and dynamics of global socio-economic systems using ideas from complexity science, with particular emphasis on national economic structure and development aid.

Hannah M. Fry is a Lecturer in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). She was trained as a mathematician with a first degree in mathematics and theoretical physics, followed by a PhD in fluid dynamics. This technical background is now applied in the mathematical modelling of complex social and economic systems, her main research interest. These systems can take a variety of forms, from retail to riots and terrorism, and exist at various scales, from the individual to the urban, regional and global, but - more generally - they deal with the patterns that emerge in space and time.

Sean Hanna is Reader in Space and Adaptive Architectures at University College London, Director of the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment's MSc/MRes programmes in Adaptive Architecture and Computation, and Academic Director of UCL's Doctoral Training Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation. He is a member of the UCL Space Group. His research is primarily in developing computational methods for dealing with complexity in design and the built environment, including the comparative modelling of space, and the use of machine learning and optimisation techniques for the design and fabrication of structures. He maintains close design industry collaboration with world-leading architects and engineers.

Shane D. Johnson is a Professor in the Department of Security and Crime Science at University College London. He has worked within the fields of criminology and forensic psychology for over 15 years, and has particular interests in complex systems, patterns of crime and insurgent activity, event forecasting and design against crime. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters.

Anthony Korte is a Research Associate in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, where he works on spatial interaction and input-output models relevant to the mathematical modelling of global trade dynamics.

Robert G. Levy is a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. He has a background in quantitative economics, database administration, coding and visualisation. His first love was Visual Basic but now writes Python and...