Research

My current research focuses on spatial biology, a highly interdisciplinary field that analyses the structural properties of biological data. In particular I work on combining tools from network science and topological data analysis to enhance our understanding of colorectal tissue structure loss through cancer progression. In the past I have also worked with discrete curvature measures and community detection on networks.

Publications

1. S. Serrano de Haro Iváñez, J. W. Moore, L. Grzesiak, E. J. Mullholand, H. Harrington, S. J. Leedham, H. M. Byrne (2025). TopROI: A topology-informed network approach for tissue partitioning. [arXiv]

2. S. Serrano de Haro Iváñez*, L. Fesser*, K. Devriendt, M. Weber, R. Lambiotte (2024). Augmentations of Forman's Ricci Curvature and their Applications in Community Detection. Journal of Physics: Complexity 5 (3), 035010 (2024). [online access][arXiv]

*Joint first authors

Conferences

Spatial Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Multiplex Imaging

• Talk and Poster at ESSB Spatial Biology: the melting pot, EMBL, 14-17 Oct 2025.

• Talk at SMB 2025 Annual Meeting , University of Alberta, 13-18 Jul 2025.

• Talk at the 3 Minute Thesis Competition of the Oxford SIAM-IMA Chapter, University of Oxford, 30 May 2025. 2nd prize.

• Talk  at the joint meeting with MPI-CBG Dresden, Lwowek Slaski, 8-9 May 2025.

• Poster at the Interphace symposium 2025, Francis Crick Institute London, 24 February 2025. Best poster prize.

• Poster at the KSMB-SMB 2024 Annual Meeting, Konkuk University, 1-5 July 2024.

Peer review

1. Reviewer for Journal of Physics: Complexity (1 article).