Name: Frank Bastian

Position: Research Assistant (Software Developer)

Supervisor/s: Aaron Lim, Mohit Tunwal, Kieran Mulchrone

Office: Post-Doctoral Office, Top Floor, Department of Geography

Email Address: FBastian@ucc.ie

Biography

Frank holds a BSc in Software Engineering and MSc in Computer Science, both awarded by the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Currently, he is about to submit his PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics to the University College Cork, Ireland.

His research interests are applying nonlinear dynamics and computational methods to various research problems, such as modelling carcinogenesis (onset of cancer), investigating the occurrence of high-frequency oscillations in electric power converters, or user input on smartphones.

Research

Most recently, the application of magnetometry data for seabed mapping was added to the list above. Within this field, I focus as a research assistant on developing an end-user GUI application for processing raw magnetometry data and a subsequent visualization to enable the exploration of Ireland's surrounding seafloor.

Publications

Bastian, F., Alkhayuon, H., Mulchrone, K., O'Riordain, M., and Wieczorek, S. (submitted) Cancer model with moving extinction threshold reproduces breast cancer data, submitted to Proceedings of the Royal Society Interface.

Avrutin, V., Zhusubaliyev, Z.T., Mandal, K., Bastian, F. and El Aroudi, A., 2025. Minimal model for investigation of noise-induced bubbling. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 472, p.134475

Fic, M., Bastian, F., Miȩkisz, J. and Gokhale, C.S., 2025. Compartment model of strategy-dependent time delays in replicator dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology, p.112044.

Avrutin, V., Bastian, F. and Zhusubaliyev, Z.T., 2021. A geometric approach to bubbling. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 417, p.132808.

Zhusubaliyev, Z.T., Avrutin, V. and Bastian, F., 2021. Transformations of closed invariant curves and closed-invariant-curve-like chaotic attractors in piecewise smooth systems. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 31(03), p.2130009.

Le, H.V., Mayer, S., Bader, P., Bastian, F. and Henze, N., 2017, May. Interaction methods and use cases for a full-touch sensing smartphone. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems (pp. 2730-2737).