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)
Preface
(1 January 2017)
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:
Mathematical models of neuronal growth
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
(7 January 2022)
The physical basis of mollusk shell chiral coiling
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
issue 48
volume 118
(22 November 2021)
Predicting brain atrophy from tau pathology: a summary of clinical findings and their translation into personalized models
Brain Multiphysics
volume 2
(12 October 2021)
Nematic liquid crystalline elastomers are aeolotropic materials
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
issue 2253
volume 477
(8 September 2021)
Braiding Braak and Braak: staging patterns and model selection in network neurodegeneration
Network Neuroscience
(31 August 2021)
Effects of B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 on COVID-19 dynamics: a campus reopening study
Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
issue 6
volume 28
page 4225-4236
(23 August 2021)
Ligand-assisted growth of nanowires from solution
Applied Sciences
issue 16
volume 11
page 7641-7641
(20 August 2021)
Universal deformations in anisotropic nonlinear elastic solids
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
volume 156
(20 August 2021)
Liquid crystal elastomers wrinkling
Nonlinearity
issue 8
volume 34
(6 July 2021)
Instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers
MRS Bulletin
issue 9
volume 46
page 784-794
(17 June 2021)
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)
An optic ray theory for durotactic axon guidance
Physical Review Letters
(15 March 2021)
A shell model of eye growth and elasticity
Journal of Elasticity
(20 January 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)
Necking, beading, and bulging in soft elastic cylinders
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
issue February 2021
volume 147
(23 November 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.