Staff Profile

Qualifications

PhD in 2005

Research Interests

Topological Data Analysis, Image Processing (astrophysical and medical images), Interstellar Medium, Analysis of Material, Graph Theory, Mathematical Morphology

2011–14: Co-Investigator, Leverhulme Trust Grant RPG-097, “Quantitative morphology of interstellar gas in the Milky Way”, £133,902

10/2018–3/2019: Co-Investigator, 6-month STFC Research Grant ST/S002383/1, "Morphological and topological image analysis for clinical diagnostics and monitoring of cornea damage", £83,779

03/2015–03/2019: Co-Investigator, Leverhulme Research Project Grant RPG-2014-427, “Observatios and models of turbulent flows: a topological approach”, £200,457

Teaching Experience

MAS8114 "Topics in Modern Applied Mathematics. Wavelets". Newcastle University, 2014-2015, Semester 1

Co-supervised Em Rickinson on the summer project "Quantitative morphology of interstellar gas in the Milky Way", 2014

Co-supervised Mathew Rickinson and Sam Warren on the 6 weeks summer project "Quantitative morphology of interstellar gas in the Milky Way", 2013

Co-supervised Gemma Greenup on the math project "Supernova remnants as tracers of interstellar magnetic fields", spring 2013

Assisted Prof. Anvar Shukurov on modulus MAS2106 "Chaos", 2012

• Garside K, Henderson R, Makarenko I, Masoller C. Topological data analysis of high resolution diabetic retinopathy images. PLoS ONE 2019, 14(5), e0217413.
• Makarenko I, Bushby P, Fletcher A, Henderson R, Makarenko N, Shukurov A. Topological data analysis and diagnostics of compressible MHD turbulence. Journal of Plasma Physics 2018, 84(4), 1-24.
• Makarenko I, Shukurov A, Henderson R, Rodrigues LFS, Bushby P, Fletcher A. Topological signatures of interstellar magnetic fields - I. Betti numbers and persistence diagrams. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018, 475(2), 1843–1858.
• Knyazeva IS, Makarenko NG, Makarenko I, Vdovina A, Urtiev FA. Analysis of the Solar magnetograms evolution using a spectral gap of critical nets. In: 5th International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences (IC-MSquare 2016). 2016, Athens, Greece: Institute of Physics Publishing.
• Makarenko I, Fletcher A, Shukurov A. 3D morphology of a random field from its 2D cross-section. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astonomical Society 2015, 447(1), L55-L59.
• Makarenko N, Malkova D, Machin M, Knyazeva I, Makarenko I. Methods of Computational Topology for the Analysis of Dynamics of Active Regions of the Sun. Journal of Mathematical Sciences 2014, 203(6), 806-815.