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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Dr Maria Bruna

Career

  • 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

There are no vacancies at the moment . 

Publications

The effective flux through a thin-film composite membrane
M Bruna, SJ Chapman, GZ Ramon
– EPL (Europhysics Letters)
(2015)
110,
40005
(doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/110/40005)
Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
B Knapp, R Bardenet, MO Bernabeu, R Bordas, M Bruna, B Calderhead, J Cooper, AG Fletcher, D Groen, B Kuijper, J Lewis, G McInerny, T Minssen, J Osborne, V Paulitschke, J Pitt-Francis, J Todoric, CA Yates, D Gavaghan, CM Deane
– PLOS Computational Biology
(2015)
11,
e1004214
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004214)
Model reduction for slow-fast stochastic systems with metastable behaviour.
M Bruna, SJ Chapman, MJ Smith
– J Chem Phys
(2014)
140,
174107
(doi: 10.1063/1.4871694)
The influence of non-polar lipids on tear film dynamics
M Bruna, CJW Breward
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
746,
565
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.106)
Ten simple rules for effective computational research.
JM Osborne, MO Bernabeu, M Bruna, B Calderhead, J Cooper, N Dalchau, S-J Dunn, AG Fletcher, R Freeman, D Groen, B Knapp, GJ McInerny, GR Mirams, J Pitt-Francis, B Sengupta, DW Wright, CA Yates, DJ Gavaghan, S Emmott, C Deane
– PLoS computational biology
(2014)
10,
e1003506
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003506)
Diffusion of finite-size particles in confined geometries.
M Bruna, SJ Chapman
– Bull Math Biol
(2013)
76,
947
(doi: 10.1007/s11538-013-9847-0)
Diffusion of multiple species with excluded-volume effects.
M Bruna, SJ Chapman
– J Chem Phys
(2012)
137,
204116
(doi: 10.1063/1.4767058)
Recovering vanadium during the production of steel from iron sand
WL Sweatman, GC Wake, L Fullard, M Bruna
– ANZIAM Journal
(2012)
53,
1
(doi: 10.21914/anziamj.v53i0.4674)
Excluded-volume effects in the diffusion of hard spheres.
M Bruna, SJ Chapman
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2012)
85,
011103
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011103)
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Research Groups

Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
Fluid Mechanics
Soft Matter
Solid Mechanics

Email

bruna@maths.cam.ac.uk

Room

G1.10

Telephone

01223 760370

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/mb2321/

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