About me

I am an Innovation Research Associate (InRA) at CAMaCS, University of Warwick, broadly interested in interdisciplinary mathematics. Before this I was a PhD student in the MAC-MIGS centre for doctoral training at the Maxwell institute graduate school, based in Heriot-Watt university under the supervision of Michela Ottobre and Ben Goddard. My more specific academic interests lie in but are not limited to mathematical modelling, applied probability, stochastic analysis and mathematical biology. You can check out a (possibly out of date) version of my CV here. See my university webpage here.

Papers

D. Crisan, P. Dobson, B. Goddard, M. Ottobre, and I. Souttar, Poisson equations with locally-lipschitz coefficients and uniform in time averaging for stochastic differential equations via strong exponential stability, 2022. Available as arXiv preprint. Published in AIHP.
B.D. Goddard, M. Ottobre, K. Painter, and I. Souttar. On the study of slow–fast dynamics, when the fast process has multiple invariant measures, 2023. Available in Royal societies proceedings A. Published.
O. D. Akyildiz, M. Ottobre, I. Souttar, A Multiscale Perspective on Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation, 2024, Available as arXiv preprint.
K. Schuh, I. Souttar, Conditions for uniform in time convergence: applications to averaging, numerical discretisations and mean-field systems, 2024, Available as arXiv preprint.

Academic Side interests

Philosophy of science

I am more generally interested in the philosophy of science, and the interplay between science and decision making. This has led myself and Joe Colvin, a former PhD colleague of mine, to record some discussions with a number of experts in mathematical modelling, see here for these. In April 2025 I organised a one-day workshop, funded by an ICMS follow-on grant, which brought together epidemiologists, economists, ecologists, research facilitators, statisticians, disaster risk management consultants, philosophers and more. It was a great room of people and we just sat around discussing.

Reading group

I co-organise a reading group, broadly on the philosophy of modelling, but often touching on topics of communication and science in society as well. We are very informal, meet roughly once a month, and try to keep open discussion beginning by considereing a particular reading. Please email me if you are interested in this, I can share some of our previous readings and accompanying notes to see if it might be right for you.

Event organisation

Gathering people in productive spaces is an extremely important part of academia. I will be co-organising some training for organising novel events across the summer, funded by a DisCouRSE flexible fund award. See the unorgodox webpage for more details.

Blogs

Read here about averages

Bikepacking/Camping

I also love to go on A-B journeys with my bike or my own two feet. My favourites, in chronological order:

Cycled Edinburgh to London 2020
Cycled Edinburgh to Mull and back 2021
Walked Edinburgh to London 2023
Walked Aviemore to Arbroath 2024
Walked Gregynog to Coventry back from Warwick stats departmental conference 2025
Cycled Coventry to Norwich for BAMC 2026
Walked Coventry to Machynlleth for Open Science retreat 2026

I made a map which illuminates part of the UK I have wild camped within a days walk (25 miles) of. That is, I plot circles of radius 25 miles around each of my camping spots (no campsites) then take the union of these circles and the intersection between them and the UK land area. One day I hope to cover the whole of the UK - I’m currently at about 34%.