Department of Statistics
Dr Alexandru Hening
Postdoctoral Researcher
+44 (0)1865 272860 (Department)+44 (0)1865 281048 (Direct) hening@stats.ox.ac.uk
I did my BS in Mathematics at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. Afterwards I received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley. My supervisor was Steve Evans. Currently I am a postdoc in Alison Etheridge's group where I am funded through the EPSRC grant 'Modelling populations in heterogeneous environments'.
Research interests
Mathematical ecology, stochastic processes, population genetics, partial differential equations, mathematical finance.
About my research
My main research interests are stochastic processes and their applications to mathematical ecology and population genetics. Currently I am using stochastic methods to analyse the dynamics of biological populations. I am interested in ecological and population genetics models which account for the effects of both spatial and temporal heterogeneity.
Details of selected publications
Killed Brownian motion with a prescribed lifetime distribution II:
Non-smooth killing (with Boris Ettinger and Tak Kwong Wong), in preparation, 2015.
Coevolution of patch selection for predators and their prey in stochastic environments (with Sebastian J. Schreiber), in preparation, 2015.
Transient diffusions conditioned to go to a different limit (with Steven N. Evans), preprint, 2015.
Markov processes conditioned on their location at large random times (with Steven N. Evans), preprint, 2015.
The free path in a high velocity random flight process associated to a Lorentz gas in an external field (with Douglas Rizzolo and Eric S.Wayman), submitted, 2015.
A stochastic Lotka-Volterra system with killing (with Martin Kolb), submitted, 2014.
When do skew-products exist? (with Steven N. Evans and Eric S. Wayman), Electronic Communications in Probability, 20, no. 54, 1-14, 2015.
Protected polymorphisms and evolutionary stability of patch-selection strategies in stochastic environments (with Steven N. Evans and Sebastian J. Schreiber), to appear in Journal of Mathematical Biology.
Killed Brownian motion with a prescribed lifetime distribution and models of default (with Boris Ettinger and Steven N. Evans), Annals of Applied Probability, 24, 1-33, 2014.
Non-existence of Markovian time dynamics for graphical models of correlated default (with Steven N. Evans), Queueing Systems, December 2011, Volume 69, Issue 3-4, 293-312.
On Polya’s Orchard Problem (with Michael Kelly), Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Math Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2006.