James Kwiecinski
Physics & Maths

James Kwiecinski

2014 Zelman Cowen John Monash Scholar
Scholarship studyDoctor of Philosophy
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Current rolePostdoctoral Research Fellow,
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
About James
James has a Bachelor of Science (Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) with 1st Class Honours and the University Medal from Monash University; his honours study addresses chaotic phenomena in the classical and quantum domain. He has done research in a number of diverse fields, from optical physics to cellular biology; he is a musician, and has German & Latin languages. He is passionate about science and mathematics education, having worked with the CSIRO to provide high-school research projects on theoretical neuroscience, chaos theory, and the modelling of infectious diseases. He is currently the Alan Tayler Scholar of Mathematics at St. Catherine’s College and works as the Tutor of Mathematical Mechanical Biology and Tutor of Modelling in Mathematical Biology at the Oxford Mathematical Institute.
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