Frankie Higgs

Research associate in probability

About me

Hi! I'm currently working as a postdoc at the University of Bath. I research the Boolean model (also known as the random blob model, and sometimes continuum percolation) and related models such as the random geometric graph. I previously worked with Mathew Penrose on boundary effects for the Boolean model, and am currently working with Matt Roberts on continuum percolation.

During my PhD I worked on random growth models in the complex plane with Amanda Turner at Lancaster University.

Contact

You can email me at fh350@bath.ac.uk

List of publications

  1. Tip growth in a strongly concentrated aggregation model follows local geodesics. Frankie Higgs. Submitted in 2025, preprint available.
  2. Covering one point process with another. Frankie Higgs, Mathew Penrose and Xiaochuan Yang. 2025. Published in Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability.
  3. Random coverage from within with variable radii, and Johnson-Mehl cover times. Mathew Penrose and Frankie Higgs. Preprint uploaded in 2024.
  4. Largest nearest-neighbour link and connectivity threshold in a polytopal random sample. Mathew Penrose, Xiaochuan Yang and Frankie Higgs. 2023. Published in the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology.
  5. SLE scaling limits for a Laplacian random growth model. Frankie Higgs. 2022. Published in Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques.