I am a PhD student in the Theoretical Systems Biology group, based at Imperial College London. The aim of my PhD is to understand how noise can be the driving force of decision-making processes (differentiation, self-renewal, apoptosis or tumorgenesis), and what are our chances to control them. So far I have been working on method development for stochastic models, a moment closure framework and a stochastic reachability method, to look into cell-to-cell-variability.