PJ Beaghton

PJ Beaghton is a Professor of Practice in Computing. He is also a Security Science Fellow of the Institute for Security Science and Technology and co-leads the Imperial College Network of Excellence in Financial Technology (FinTech). His FinSec research at the ISST focuses (a) on security threats to the financial markets such as the contagion across exchanges, products and regions of intended or accidental disruptive shocks in the electronic securities and derivative markets, and (b) on algorithmic forensic analysis of complex transactions in securities and derivatives in order to identify suspicious patterns linked to money laundering and other criminal activities.

He is also involved in research with Professor Austin Burt (Life Sciences) and the Target Malaria consortium on reaction-diffusion systems and stochastic simulations and agent/individual-based models of vector population dynamics. The primary focus is on modelling the usage of selfish genetic elements to genetically manipulate natural populations of mosquitoes that transmit malaria.

Education

• MA,MSE,PhD Princeton University (1982 — 1988)
• Bachelor of Science (BS) National Technical University of Athens (1977 — 1982)

Companies

• Professor of Practice in Computing, Security Science Fellow, Institute for Security Science and Tech Imperial College London (2017)
• Director TRADEPLEX LTD (1998)
• Director Sheldon Gate Ltd (2013 — 2022)
• Honorary Principal Research Fellow Imperial College London (2016 — 2017)
• Honorary Research Associate Imperial College London (2013 — 2017)
• Director and CEO Sheldon Capital Ltd (2011 — 2016)
• Director and CEO Beaghton Capital Management Ltd (1998 — 2011)
• Managing Director Salomon Brothers (1987 — 1998)

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Beaghton PJ, Burt A, 2022, Gene drives and population persistence vs elimination: The impact of spatial structure and inbreeding at low density, Theoretical Population Biology, Vol:145, ISSN:0040-5809

Beaghton AK, Beaghton PJ, Burt A, 2017, Vector control with driving Y chromosomes: modelling the evolution of resistance, Malaria Journal, Vol:16, ISSN:1475-2875

Beaghton A, Beaghton PJ, Burt A, 2016, Gene drive through a landscape: Reaction–diffusion models of population suppression and elimination by a sex ratio distorter, Theoretical Population Biology, Vol:108, ISSN:1096-0325, Pages:51-69

SAVILLE DA, BEAGHTON PJ, 1988, GROWTH OF NEEDLE-SHAPED CRYSTALS IN THE PRESENCE OF CONVECTION, Physical Review A, Vol:37, ISSN:1050-2947, Pages:3423-3430