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+44 1865 615180
ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-8666
Research groups:
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Research interests:
Topological Data Analysis, Data Science, Mathematical Biology, Algebraic Systems Biology
Teaching:
Differential Equations I (Lincoln College, MT 2019).
Constructive Mathematics (Lincoln College, TT 2017).
Integral Transforms (Lincoln College, HT 2017).
Geometry (Lincoln College, MT 2016).
Integer Programming (TA, Mathematical Institute, MT 2015).
Introduction to Matlab (Demonstrator, Doctoral Training Centre, MT 2015).
In March 2017 I was accredited an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Prizes, awards, and scholarships:
2021 Anile-ECMI prize for best PhD thesis.
Mathematical Institute DPhil thesis prize 2020.
Research member of common room in Kellogg College, 2019.
Prize for best talk in the Data Science session at the Liverpool Early Career Researcher Conference 2019.
EPSRC and MRC full doctoral scholarship 2014 - 2019.
Berrow Scholar 2013 - 2014.
Swiss Study Foundation 2008 - 2018.
Scholarship from the Czech government for studies at Charles University in Prague 2011.
Major / recent publications:
BJ Stolz, J Tanner, HA Harrington, V Nanda: Geometric anomaly detection in data, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (33), 2020.
BJ Stolz, J Kaeppler, B Markelc, F Mech, F Lipsmeier, RJ Muschel, HM Byrne, HA Harrington: Multiscale topology characterises dynamic tumour vascular networks, arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08667, 2020.
BJ Stolz: Outlier-robust subsampling techniques for persistent homology, arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14743, 2021.
JT Nardini, BJ Stolz, KB Flores, HA Harrington, HM Byrne: Topological data analysis distinguishes parameter regimes in the Anderson-Chaplain model of angiogenesis, PLOS Computational Biology 17 (6), 2021.
HM Byrne, HA Harrington, R Muschel, G Reinert, BJ Stolz, U Tillmann: Topology characterises tumour vasculature, Mathematics Today 55 (5), 2019 (arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.08711).
BJ Stolz, T Emerson, S Nahkuri, MA Porter, HA Harrington: Topological data analysis of task-based fMRI data from experiments on schizophrenia,
Journal of Physics: Complexity 2(3), 2021.
BJ Stolz, HA Harrington, MA Porter: Persistent homology of time-dependent functional networks constructed from coupled time series, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 27 (4), 047410, 2017.
BJ Stolz, H Harrington, MA Porter: The Topological 'Shape' of Brexit, arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00752, 2016.
BJ Stolz: Global and local persistent homology for the shape and classification of biological data, DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 2019.
BJ Stolz: Computational topology in neuroscience, Master's thesis, University of Oxford, 2014.