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:
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
(29 May 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:
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)
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)
Morphoelastic rods III: Differential growth and curvature generation in elastic filaments
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
volume 142
(16 May 2020)
Dynamic buckling of an inextensible elastic ring: Linear and nonlinear analyses
Physical Review E
volume 101
(13 May 2020)
Dynamic buckling of an elastic ring in a soap film
Physical Review Letters
volume 124
(13 May 2020)
Dynamic Buckling of an Elastic Ring in a Soap Film.
Physical review letters
issue 19
volume 124
page 198003-
(13 May 2020)
Likely striping in stochastic nematic elastomers
Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
issue 10
volume 25
page 1851-1872
(1 May 2020)
Dynamic buckling of an inextensible elastic ring: Linear and nonlinear analyses.
Phys Rev E
issue 5-1
volume 101
page 053002-
(1 May 2020)
Likely cavitation and radial motion of stochastic elastic spheres
Nonlinearity
issue 5
volume 35
(13 March 2020)
The mechanics of human brain organoids
Physical Review E
volume E101
(6 February 2020)
Building a carnivorous trap
Science
issue 6473
volume 367
page 24-25
(3 January 2020)
Mechanics unlocks the morphogenetic puzzle of interlocking bivalved shells
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
issue 1
volume 117
page 43-51
(16 December 2019)
Spatially-extended nucleation-aggregation-fragmentation models for the dynamics of prion-like neurodegenerative protein-spreading in the brain and its connectome
Journal of Theoretical Biology
volume 486
page 110102-
(3 December 2019)
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.