Tobias Galla

Reader   Theoretical Physics   Complex Systems and Statistical Physics Group   School of Physics and Astronomy   The University of Manchester   Manchester   M13 9PL

Email   Tobias.Galla@manchester.ac.uk Telephone   +44-(0)161-275-4264 Room   Schuster Building 7.16 Follow @tobiasgalla

Research Interests

• statistical mechanics of complex systems
• stochastic dynamics in biological systems
• evolutionary dynamics, game theory and cancer modelling
• mathematical modelling in health care, uncertainty quantification
• non-Markovian dynamics and stochastic delay systems
• pattern formation in stochastic systems

Selected papers

• Stochastic tunneling and metastable states during the somatic evolution of cancer
Peter Ashcroft, Franziska Michor, Tobias Galla
Genetics 199.4 (2015) 1213-1228
• microRNA input into a neural ultradian oscillator controls emergence and timing of alternative cell states
Marc Goodfellow, Nicholas E. Phillips, Cerys Manning, Tobias Galla, Nancy Papalopulu
Nature Communications 5, 3399 (2014)
• Complex dynamics in learning complicated games
Tobias Galla, J. Doyne Farmer
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 110 (2013) 1232
• Stochastic Processes with Distributed Delays: Chemical Langevin Equation and Linear-Noise Approximation
Tobias Brett, Tobias Galla
Physical Review Letters 110, 250601 (2013)
• Intrinsic noise in game dynamical learning
Tobias Galla
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 198702 (2009)

Recent

• A computational model of MGUS progression to Multiple Myeloma identifies optimum screening strategies and their effects on mortality
  Philipp M. Altrock, Jeremy Ferlic, Tobias Galla, Michael H. Tomasson, Franziska Michor
  bioRxiv 208645
• Fast flowing populations are not well mixed
  Francisco Herrerias-Azcue, Vicente Perez-Munuzuri, Tobias Galla
  arxiv:1709.10442
• Phenotypic switching of populations of cells in a stochastic environment
  Peter G. Hufton, Yen Ting Lin, Tobias Galla
  arxiv:1706.07789
• The effects of heterogeneity on stochastic cycles in epidemics
  Francisco Herrerias-Azcue, Tobias Galla
  Scientific Reports 7,13008 (2017), arxiv:1705.04499
• The prevalence of chaotic dynamics in games with many players
  James B. T. Sanders, J. Doyne Farmer, Tobias Galla
  arxiv:1612.08111
• Sojourn times and fixation dynamics in multi-player games with fluctuating environments
  Joseph W. Baron, Tobias Galla
  arxiv:1612.05530
• Mechanisms of stochastic onset and termination of atrial fibrillation episodes: Insights using a cellular automaton model
  Yen Ting Lin, Eugene TY Chang, Julie Eatock, Tobias Galla, Richard H Clayton
  J. R. Soc. Interface 14: 20160968., arxiv:1612.03403
• Stochasticity in the miR-9/Hes1 oscillatory network can account for clonal heterogeneity in the timing of differentiation
  Nick E Phillips, Cerys S Manning, Tom Pettini, Veronica Biga, Elli Marinopoulou, Peter Stanley, James Boyd, James Bagnall, Pawel Paszek, David G Spiller, Michael RH White, Marc Goodfellow, Tobias Galla, Magnus Rattray, Nancy Papalopulu
  eLife 2016;5:e16118_n

All papers

A full list of publications can be found here.

Manchester Collaborators

Funding

• EPSRC Ideas factory/Sandpit grant Forecasting personal health in an uncertain environment
  2013-2017, with Richard Clayton, Nigel Clarke, Oliver Jensen, Julie Eatock


• EPSRC network grant Towards consensus on a unifying treatment of emergence and systems far from equilibrium
  2012-2015, with Bogdan Hnat

  An outreach article on the above Network Plus can be found here.

• EU Complexity Net, Resilience and interaction of networks in ecology and economics (RESINEE)
  2010-2013, with Anxo Sanchez, Antonio Cabrales, Jose Cuesta, Alan McKane, Sanjeev Goyal, Max Rietkerk, Miguel Zavala)
• EPSRC Ideas factory/Sandpit grant Game theory and adaptive networks for smart evacuations
  2010-2012, with J. Preston, J. Binner, L. Branicki, M. Ferrario, N. Jones
  See here for our book (City Evacuations: An interdisciplinary approach, Springer)
• Royal Society International Joint Project Grant, Characterising complex nonlinear systems using quantum information theory
  2010-2012, with Otfried Guehne, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Innsbruck, Austria

Trajectory

• since 09/07: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK
  (2016- Reader; 2012-16 Senior Lecturer; 2007-12 RCUK Fellow/Lecturer)
• May 2007: certificate Advanced security in the field, UN Department of Safety and Security 
• 9/04-08/07: postdoc, ICTP Trieste statistical physics group (and INFM-CNR-SISSA),
  funded through STIPCO and GENNETEC networks
• November 2004: Doctor of Philosophy, Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford,
  group of David Sherrington
• December 1999: Diplom in Physics, University of Muenster, Germany
  group of Gernot Muenster
• September 1996: Vordiplom in Physics and in Mathematics, University of Muenster 
• June 1980: Diploma of play, Parents nursery school Palo Alto, California 

Teaching (2014/15)

• Thermal and Statistical Physics (PHYS20352)
• Advanced Statistical Physics (PHYS40571)
• University College: Physics and The Grand Challenges of Today (UCOL29002)

See here for info for inbound Erasmus students.

For prospective MPhys students

• The dynamics of Minority Games
• Chaos in game theory
• Stochastic models of evolutionary processes
• Agent-based modelling of evacuation dynamics
• When symmetry breaks, how big are the pieces ? The dynamics of defect formation
• Stochastic processes on complex networks