Konstantinos Zygalakis is a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Southampton. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick in 2009 and held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne before joining Southampton in 2012. In 2011 he was awarded a Leslie Fox prize (IMA UK). His research interests span from the theoretical and numerical aspects of stochastic processes and homogenization theory to applications in mathematical biology.