Mathematical Biology and Healthcare

Professor Smith's interests are microscale biological fluid dynamics, especially in fertility, health and disease. Examples including sperm motiliy, cilia driven flow, mucus layers in lungs and digestive tract, and the fluid mechanics of biopolymers. He works with computational methods for modelling viscous flows, especially boundary integral methods, with applications in medicine and biology.

Dr Amico's research revolves around developing and applying network science models to investigate real-world problems. His main expertise is network neuroscience, which relates to the exploration of the structural and functional brain network in health and disease; he is also interested in other kinds of complex systems (ecological, epidemiological, etc.).

Dr Andrews is a researcher applying mathematical and computational techniques to problems in applied mathematics. He works on microfluidics, chemically reacting systems with a focus on fuel cells and their systems, time series, spatial dynamics and AI, sensor and device design and manufacture, numerical methods for PDEs, the sense of touch, and social behaviour modelling and policy design.

Professor Duong's research interests lie in the intersections of analysis and applied probability. Most of his research is inspired from applications in molecular dynamics, material sciences and biological systems.

Professor Dyson's research is in mathematical modelling; biomechanics; thin liquid films; fibre-reinforced fluids.

Dr Gallagher's research interests are in: image analysis of human sperm motility; Biological fluid dynamics; Asymptotic and numerical methods to investigate problems in fluid mechanics; Mathematical modelling of fluid structure interaction; Numerical modelling of stability of Non-Newtonian fluids.

Dr Jabbari's research focuses on mathematical modelling, particularly applied to biological systems, e.g. gene regulation networks, and the use of asymptotic methods to analyse and simplify mathematical models.

Dr Johnson's research focuses on complex systems, and in particular on the relationship between structure and dynamics. Many of the questions his work addresses relate to ecology, neuroscience or society.

Dr Luo's research interests are in mathematical plant science, complex systems, condensed matter, polaron theory and theoretical biophysics.

Dr Rajendran's research interests include mathematical analysis of models arising in the realms of biology and engineering. She specifically focuses on systems involving ordinary/partial differential equations that are nonlinear, coupled and involving nonlocal operators and/or noise perturbations.

Professor Spill's research is centred on aspects of Mathematical Biology. From the mathematical side he is interested in applications of stochastic models and various differential equations, from ODEs to coupled bulk-surface reaction-diffusion systems. From the application side, he is interested in cancer biology, mechanobiology, and the dynamic interplay of cells and their microenvironment.

Dr Touloupou's research is concerned with mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and the development of novel statistical methods needed for model fitting and model selection.

Dr Tourigny has an interdisciplinary background in experimental, mathematical and computational biology. His research interests include the development and application of computational approaches to understand single-cell metabolism, and particularly the role of metabolic heterogeneity in cancer.

Dr Tzella's work studies how tracers (e.g. pollutants) evolve in idealised fluid and porous flows. This uses mathematical and computational methods to develop models that provide better descriptions and predictions of the concentrations in various situations, with emphasis on environmental issues like the distribution of plankton species in the ocean and contaminants in groundwater aquifers.

Dr Yingjing Feng is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine with Professor John Terry. She has a strong interest in the interdisciplinary research of computing, mathematics and biomedical engineering. Her research is focused on developing statistical and mechanistic modelling methods to advance the diagnosis and treatment of human diseases.

Previously focusing on optimisation using evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective problems with time dependencies, he is now working on the extension of these methods and others to industrial applications including building occupancy, network analysis and in psychology and biology applications.