My Research
I am currently researching the factors that influence the rates at which languages evolve. This research will include collecting data on phonemes in different languages and then help to develop a statistical model to describe how phoneme-use evolves across sets of related languages. I am part of the Evolutionary Biology Group, which is in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading.
Visit
February 2010: To the Santa Fe Institute.
Blogs
14th March 2010: Santa Fe
Previous Research
Meteorology
Between March 2009 and January 2010, I was a researcher in the Boundary Layer Meteorology group in the Department of Meteorology, at the University of Reading. My research was into Modelling Winds and Dispersion in Urban Areas.
Ph.D.
Prior to this, I completed a Ph.D. at the School of Systems Engineering, at the University of Reading, where I researched hybrid Monte Carlo methods for matrix computations.
