Summary

I'm an applied mathematician based in the School of Mathematics and Physics at Portsmouth. I came to batteries by a slightly roundabout route. My PhD, at Sapienza University of Rome as a Marie Curie Fellow, was on high-order numerical schemes for Hamilton–Jacobi equations, the maths behind optimal control and differential games. After that I taught at Durham for three years and then spent a year as an Assistant Research Professor at ShanghaiTech University in China.

In 2019 I joined Portsmouth as a Faraday Institution Research Fellow on the Multi-Scale Modelling project. That's where I started working on lithium-ion batteries, and it's where DandeLiion began: a solver for the Newman (DFN) model that is fast enough to run full-cell simulations almost instantly. I became a Lecturer in 2023 and a Senior Lecturer in 2024, and I'm now a Co-I on the current phase of the Faraday Institution Multi-Scale Modelling project, running to 2030.

Alongside the academic work, I co-founded DandeLiion Technologies Ltd, a spin-out from Southampton and Portsmouth, where I look after operations and model development. I'm also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and I enjoy teaching as much as research.

Teaching responsibilities

I'm module coordinator for, and teach, two third-year modules: Nonlinear Dynamics M20725 and Statistical Learning M30920. I also supervise final-year projects in applied mathematics.

In 2023/24 and 2024/25 I was First Year Leader for mathematics

PhD students

• Daegyung Yoon (first supervisor)
• Joseph Petrassem De Sousa (second supervisor)
• Pasquale Conte (second supervisor)