Matthias Winkel

Matthias Winkel is a Lecturer in Mathematics at Brasenose College and holds a Departmental Lecturership at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. He is also a member of the Probability Group and associated with research groups in Stochastic Analysis and Combinatorics.

Education:

• M.Sc. (Manchester, 1998)
• Diplom (Münster, 1999)
• Ph.D. (Paris, 2001)

Research Interests:

• Random trees and forests, branching processes, Lévy processes
• Exchangeability, random partitions, hierarchies
• Stochastic models in mathematical biology and finance

Advising & Collaborations:

• Current PhD students: Matthew Buckland, David Geldbach (joint with Julien Berestycki)
• Former students include Almut Veraart, Di Kuang, Bo Chen
• Collaborators: Jim Pitman, Thomas Duquesne, Hui He, Andreas Kyprianou

Research Contributions: Focuses on continuum random trees, fragmentation processes, and applications of Lévy processes. Key work includes Aldous diffusion models, interval partition evolutions, and tree-valued stochastic processes.