Currently I am a postdoc at BOKU University in Fernando Cordero's group. From 2022 to 2026 I was a postdoc in the group of Emmanuel Schertzer at the University of Vienna. From 2019 to 2022 I was a PhD student at the University of Bath. My supervisors were Sarah Penington and Matt Roberts.
My research is in probability theory: I am interested in branching processes with selection; that is, in models that are related to the evolution of a population under natural selection. The most interesting questions in this topic concern the speed of evolution, the genealogical structure and the fitness profile of the population.Preprints
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K-Branching Random Walk with Noisy Selection:
Large Population Limits and Phase Transitions
Colin Desmarais, Emmanuel Schertzer and Zsofia Talyigas -
Selection of the fittest or selection of
the luckiest: the emergence of Goodhart's law in evolution
Bastien Mallein, Francesco Paparella, Emmanuel Schertzer and Zsofia Talyigas -
Stochastic neutral fractions and the effective
population size
Raphael Forien, Emmanuel Schertzer, Zsofia Talyigas and Julie Tourniaire
Publications
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Genealogy and spatial distribution of the N-particle branching random walk with polynomial tails
Sarah Penington, Matthew I. Roberts and Zsofia Talyigas
Electronic Journal of Probability 27 1 - 65, 2022 -
Borodin-Peche fluctuations of the free energy in directed random polymer models
Zsofia Talyigas and Balint Veto
Journal of Theoretical Probability 33 (2020), no. 3, 1426-1444 -
An optimal inverse Laplace transform method without positive and negative overshoot - an integral based interpretation
Illes Horvath, Zsofia Talyigas, Miklos Telek
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 337:87 -- 104, 2018. Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on the Practical Application of Stochastic Modelling (PASM)