Career

• 2019-present: University Lecturer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.
• 2019-present: Royal Society University Research Fellowship, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.
• 2019-present: Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.
• 2013-2019: Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics, St John's College, Oxford, UK.
• 2015: Olga Taussky Pauli Fellow and Senior Postdoctoral Researcher. Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Vienna, Austria.
• 2012-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Science Department, Oxford.

Research

Maria is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Her research interests are stochastic modelling, asymptotic methods and homogenisation techniques in the areas of mathematical biology and industrial mathematics. Her research focuses on methods to capture multiscale phenomena of stochastic systems of interacting particles. 

Vacancies

Fully funded PhD studentship for a UK/EU national available from October 2020. Deadline 31st of January 2020. More information here. 

Selected Publications

• L. C. B. Alasio, M. Bruna, and J. A. Carrillo. “The role of a strong confining potential in a nonlinear Fokker–Planck equation”. Nonlinear Analisis (2019).
• L. Alasio, M. Bruna, and Y. Capdeboscq. “Stability estimates for a family of cross-diffusion systems”. ESAIM: M2AN 52 (2018), pp. 1109–1135.
• D. B. Wilson, H. Byrne, and M. Bruna. “Reactions, diffusion, and volume exclusion in a conserved system of interacting particles”. Phys. Rev. E 97.6 (2018), p. 062137.
• M. Bruna, S. J. Chapman, and M. Robinson. “Diffusion of particles with short-range interactions”. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 77.6 (2017), pp. 2294–2316.
• M. Bruna, M. Burger, H. Ranetbauer, and M.-T. Wolfram. “Cross-Diffusion Systems with Excluded-Volume Effects and Asymptotic Gradient Flow Structures”. J. Nonlinear Sci. 27.2 (2017), pp. 687–719.
• M. P. Dalwadi, I. M. Griffiths, and M. Bruna. “Understanding how porosity gradients can make a better filter using homogenization theory”. Proc. R. Soc. A 471 (2015), p. 20150464.
• M. Bruna and S. J. Chapman. “Diffusion in Spatially Varying Porous Media”. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 75.4 (2015), pp. 1648–1674.
• M. Bruna, S. J. Chapman, and M. J. Smith. “Model reduction for slow–fast stochastic systems with metastable behaviour”. J. Chem. Phys. 140.17 (2014), p. 174107.
• M. Bruna and S. J. Chapman. “Excluded-volume effects in the diffusion of hard spheres”. Phys. Rev. E 85.1 (2012), p. 011103.