Javier Chico Vazquez

Javier Chico Vazquez

Mathematics PhD/DPhil candidate

University of Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

About me

Javier Chico Vazquez is a DPhil at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Dominic Vella and Prof. Derek Moulton. In my research I use techniques from Applied Mathematics to model phenomena in the natural sciences, the weirder the topic the more interesting. If you have a topic suggestion feel free to contact me!

I completed my BSc and MSc at Imperial College London, where I received the Governor’s Prize in Mathematics, awarded to the best graduating student. My Master thesis research was on falling ferrofluids, under the supervision of Prof D.T. Papageorgiou.

Interests
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Mathematical Modelling
  • Asymptotic analysis
  • Scientific Computing
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Partial Differential Equations
Education
  • PhD in Mathematics, 2027 (Expected)

    University of Oxford

  • MSci(and BSc) in Mathematics, 2023

    Imperial College London

Skills

Technical
Python
Julia
MatLab
Hobbies
Cats
Mountain Biking
Travelling

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
University of Oxford
Teaching Assistant
University of Oxford
October 2023 – Present Oxford

Modules taught include:

  • Viscous Flow
  • Applied PDEs
  • Mathematical Mechanical Biology
 
 
 
 
 
Merton College
College Tutor
Merton College
January 2024 – Present Oxford
Viscous flow tutor.
 
 
 
 
 
Imperial College London
Peer Tutor
Imperial College London
October 2022 – May 2023 London
Peer tutor for two groups of first year undergraduate students.
 
 
 
 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
January 2022 – June 2022 Cambridge, MA
Studied Spectral density estimation and Kernel Polynomial Methods with Dr Andrew Horning.
 
 
 
 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 2022 – September 2022 Remote
Studied two different problems in epidemic modelling.

Accomplish­ments and awards

Imperial College London
MSci Governors prize in Mathematics.
Awarded to the best graduating student.
See certificate

Projects

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Falling ferrofluids
Developed reduced order models to understand falling ferrofluids in the long wave limit. Obtained novel results when the ferrofluids are subject to stochastic currents.
Falling ferrofluids
Chebyshev Polynomials & random variables
Developed a result on the convergence of random variables when transformed by Chebyshev Polynomials

Contact

Feel free to email me with new project and topic suggestions and ideas