Julia Komjathy

Julia Komjathy is an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EWI), within the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (DIAM). She leads the Applied Probability Group and focuses on probabilistic network models, including random graphs, spatial networks, and epidemic processes. Her research explores structural properties like 'explosion' in weighted graphs and phase transitions in contact processes.

Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics from TU Budapest under Professors Márton Balázs and Károly Simon (2012). Thesis: Topics in Markov chains: Mixing and escape rate.

Research Interests:

• Random graph models of complex networks
• Spatial random graphs and hyperbolic geometry
• Weighted random graphs and distance evolution
• Epidemic spread dynamics on networks
• Branching processes and percolation theory
• Phase transitions in scale-free systems

Professional Activities:

• Organizer of TU Delft's Probability & Statistics Seminar
• Keynote speaker at WAW 2024 (Warsaw) and Discrete Probability Days 2023 (Barcelona)
• Supervised 4 PhD students, including Enrico Baroni (2017), Viktoria Vadon (2020), and Joost Jorritsma (2023)

Awards: None explicitly listed, but her work has been published in top journals like PNAS, Annals of Applied Probability, and Random Structures & Algorithms.

Current Projects: Investigating degree-dependent contact processes, first-passage percolation growth regimes, and cluster-size decay in spatial networks.