Joshua Forrest

I am a PhD student in the Theoretical Systems Biology group and the Systems Biology Lab at the University of Melbourne. My research is in energy-based models of bacteria for the purposes of whole-cell modelling.  Specifically, I am working on using bond graphs to combine dynamical system models with rigorous thermodynamic constraints and a graph-theoretic representation of biophysical systems.

In 2017 I graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), specialising in engineering science, and a Bachelor of Arts, specialising in mathematics. I have since worked as a data analyst and software engineer at an engineering consultancy firm, before moving back into academia in 2020. My research interests are broad; I work primarily in mathematical modelling and dynamical systems, but I am also interested in graph theory, optimization, data science, machine learning, statistics, and computation.