Oxford Mathematician Alain Goriely has been appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry. The Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, is one of ten lecturers whose roles are to give free educational lectures to the general public, the purpose for which the college was founded in 1597 in the will of Thomas Gresham. In total there are over 130 public lectures a year, all of which are online.
Alain Goriely FRS is the Professor of Mathematical Modelling here in Oxford, Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM), the Director of the International Brain and Mechanics Lab (IBMATL) with Antoine Jérusalem, and a fellow of St Catherine’s College.
Alain's work ranges across many areas of applied mathematics including the mechanics of biological growth, the modelling of the brain, the theoretical foundations of mechanics, the dynamics of curves, knots, and rods, the modelling of cancer, the development of new photovoltaic devices, the modelling of lithium-ion batteries and, more generally the study and development of mathematical methods for applied sciences.
Alain has also given many public lectures on his work and mathematics more broadly and was formerly Director of External Relations for Oxford Mathematics in which role he instigated and developed the popular Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture series.
In his first series of lectures, Alain will explore how mathematics is being used to understand the brain.
Alain is the author of Morphoelasticity: The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth' and 'Applied Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction'.