Status:
Statutory Professor (Chair) of Mathematical Modelling
Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial Applied Mathematics (OCIAM)
Director of the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM)
Fellow of SIAM and the IMA
Personal website:
+44 1865 615169
ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-8483
Research groups:
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent Books:
Applied Mathematics
ISBN-13: 9780198754046
(22 February 2018)
The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth
ISBN-13: 9780387877105
(1 January 2017)
New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: July 2009
ISBN-13: 9780199605835
(22 September 2011)
Integrability and Nonintegrability of Dynamical Systems
ISBN-13: 9789812811943
(2001)
Recent Publications:
Global and local mobility as a barometer for COVID-19 dynamics.
Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology
issue 2
volume 20
page 651-669
(April 2021)
The role of clearance mechanisms in the kinetics of toxic protein aggregates involved in neurodegenerative diseases
Journal of Chemical Physics
issue 12
volume 154
(24 March 2021)
Theory for durotactic axon guidance
Physical Review Letters
issue 11
volume 126
(15 March 2021)
The mathematical foundations of anelasticity: Existence of smooth global intermediate configurations
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
issue 2245
volume 477
(6 January 2021)
Multiscale integration of environmental stimuli in plant tropism produces complex behaviors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
issue 51
volume 117
page 32226-32237
(3 December 2020)
Interactions of anisotropic inclusions on a fluid membrane
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
issue 6
volume 80
page 2448-2471
(1 December 2020)
Folding drives cortical thickness variations
European Physical Journal - Special Topics
issue 17-18
volume 229
page 2757-2778
(16 November 2020)
A pseudo-anelastic model for stress softening in liquid crystal elastomers
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
volume 476
(4 November 2020)
Anisotropic diffusion and traveling waves of toxic proteins in neurodegenerative diseases
Physics Letters A
issue 36
volume 384
(8 October 2020)
The anelastic Ericksen problem: universal deformations and universal eigenstrains in incompressible nonlinear anelasticity
Journal of Elasticity
volume 142
page 291-381
(7 October 2020)
Is it safe to lift COVID-19 travel bans? The Newfoundland story.
Computational mechanics
page 1-12
(29 August 2020)
Elastocytosis
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
volume 145
page 104133-104133
(28 August 2020)
Reverse coarsening and the control of particle size 2 distribution through surfactant
Applied Sciences
issue 15
volume 10
(3 August 2020)
Is it safe to lift COVID-19 travel bans? The Newfoundland story.
Computational Mechanics
(2 August 2020)
A plate theory for nematic liquid crystalline solids
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
volume 144
(24 July 2020)
Competitive nucleation mechanism for CsPbBr3 perovskite nanoplatelets growth
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
issue 16
volume 11
page 6535-6543
(15 July 2020)
Topological features dictate the mechanics of the mammalian brains
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
volume 187
(3 July 2020)
Revisiting the wrinkling of elastic bilayers II: Post-bifurcation analysis
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
(13 June 2020)
An autonomous oscillation times and executes centriole biogenesis
Cell
issue 7
volume 181
page 1566-1581.e27
(11 June 2020)
Research interests:
- Methods of Applied Mathematics (differential equations, dynamical systems,...)
- Discrete and continuum mechanics, elasticity, plasticity.
- Application of mechanics and mathematics to biology.
- Mathematical modelling in physics and engineering.
- Interesting and otherwise unclassifiable mathematical problems.