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A picture of Bernadette Stolz in front of a book shelf smiling.

Bernadette Stolz

DPhil (Oxon), MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (Oxon), BSc in Mathematics (Bern), BSc in Molecular Medicine (Göttingen)
Status
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Contact form
+44 1865 615180
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-8666
Research groups
  • Topology
  • Data Science
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Topological Data Analysis

Address
Mathematical Institute
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

Prizes, awards, and scholarships

2022 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Rising Talent Award in Mathematics and Computer Science.

2021 Anile-ECMI prize for best PhD thesis.

2020 Mathematical Institute DPhil thesis prize.

Research member of common room in Kellogg College, since 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.

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.

Major / recent publications

BJ Stolz, J Kaeppler, B Markelc, F Mech, F Lipsmeier, RJ Muschel, HM Byrne, HA Harrington: Multiscale topology characterises dynamic tumour vascular networks, Science Advances 8 (23), 2022.

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: Outlier-robust subsampling techniques for persistent homology, arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14743, 2021.

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.

S Chulian, BJ Stolz, A Martinez-Rubio, C Blazquez Goni, JF Rodriguez Gutierrez, T Caballero Velazquez, A Molinos Quintana, M Ramírez Orellana, A Castillo Robleda, JL Fuster Soler, A Minguela Puras, MV Martínez Sánchez, M Rosa, VM Pérez-García, and HM Byrne, The shape of cancer relapse: Topological data analysis predicts recurrence in paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, medRxiv preprint medRxiv: 12.22.21268233, 2021.

Hosuk Ryou, Korsuk Sirinukunwattana, Alan Aberdeen, Gillian Grindstaff, BJ Stolz, Helen Byrne, Heather A. Harrington, Nikolaos Sousos, Anna L. Godfrey, Claire N. Harrison, Bethan Psaila, Adam J. Mead, Gabrielle Rees, Gareth D. H. Turner, Jens Rittschner, and Daniel Royston, Continuous Indexing of Fibrosis (CIF): Improving the Assessment and Classification of MPN Patients, Leukemia, 2022.

EL Brown, TL Lefebvre, PW Sweeney, BJ Stolz, J Gröhl, L Hacker, Z Huang, HA Harrington, HM Byrne, SM Bohndiek: Quantification of vascular networks in photoacoustic mesoscopy, Photoacoustics 26, 2022.

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, 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.

 

Theses:

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.

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