DrMatthew Dickson

I joined UCD as a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in August 2026, working in probability theory. My main fields of interest cover various random marked point processes -- including spatial random graphs and marked random connection models, as well as bosonic loop soup models and random interlacements. These models exhibit phase transitions in their percolation and condensation behaviour (sometimes multiple transitions!). I am particularly interested in exploring behaviour at and around these transition points, using techniques such as the lace expansion.