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Basics

Name James Holehouse
Label Assistant Professor of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
Email jamesholehouse1@gmail.com
Url https://ther3lab.github.io
Summary Mathematical biologist and complexity scientist; PI of the Rules, Regulations, and Randomness ($R^3$) Lab, working on the growth, diversity, and robustness of regulatory systems across biology and society.

Work

Education

  • 2018 - 2022
    PhD
    University of Edinburgh
    Theoretical Biology
    • Dissertation: Model reduction, mechanistic modelling and transience in models of stochastic chemical kinetics
    • Advisor: Ramon Grima
    • Awarded the Reinhart-Heinrich Thesis Award (ESMTB, 2022); presented thesis research in a plenary talk at ECMTB 2024
  • 2014 - 2018
    MPhys
    University of Edinburgh
    Theoretical Physics
    • First-class honors; integrated Master of Physics combining undergraduate and postgraduate study

Projects

  • 2024 - Present
    The Sports Rules Project
    An ongoing project cataloguing and quantifying the evolution of sports rulebooks -- including cricket and rugby -- as case studies in regulatory growth.

Grants

Awards

  • 2022
    Reinhart-Heinrich Award
    European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
    Awarded for PhD thesis research; gave a plenary talk at ECMTB 2024 based on the work.
  • 2020
    Research Collaboration Prize
    Scottish Mathematical Biology Forum (SMBF), alongside Jochen Kursawe (University of St. Andrews)
  • 2017
    Sponsored Research Award
    Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Service

  • 2024 - 2024
    Talk Series Co-organizer
    St. John's College, Santa Fe (SFI postdoc speaker series)
  • 2023 - 2026
    Postdoc Retreat Organizer
    Santa Fe Institute
    Organized in 2023, 2024, and 2026.
  • 2023 - 2024
    Complexity Postdoc Selection Committee -- Core Member
    Santa Fe Institute
  • 2023 - 2025
    Curriculum Director
    Undergraduate Complexity Research Program, Santa Fe Institute (an NSF REU program)
  • 2020 - Present
    Journal Reviewer
    Various
    • Physical Review Letters
    • Physical Review X
    • Physical Review Research
    • Physical Review E
    • Biophysical Journal
    • PLoS One
    • Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
    • npj Complexity
    • Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
    • Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
    • Mathematical Biosciences

Skills

Theoretical Methods
Stochastic Processes
Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics
Master Equation Methods
Network Theory
Evolutionary Modeling
Research Areas
Gene Regulatory Networks
Complex Systems
Scaling Laws
Mathematical Biology