Yaniv Proselkov began his PhD within the IfM in October 2019, with a focus on distributed autonomous control and complex networks. He was previously employed as a quantitative researcher at an alternative finance hedge fund, Fasanara Capital, where he performed macroeconomic networks themed research, and supply chain analysis on the companies client network. He graduated best in class from the University of Bristol with an MSc (Dist) in Engineering Mathematics in 2018, with a dissertation combining PDE theory with complex network theory, before which he completed his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics in 2017 at the same institution.