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Chair of Mathematical Modelling

Prof. Alain Goriely FRS

Ph D
Director of External Relations and Public Engagement
Status
Academic Faculty

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)
Director of the International Brain and Mechanics Trauma Lab (IBMTL)
Fellow of SIAM and the IMA

 

Contact form
http://www.goriely.com
+44 1865 615169
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-8483
Research groups
  • Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Data Science
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Networks

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Recent books
Applied Mathematics Goriely, A (22 Feb 2018)
Preface Goriely, A (01 Jan 2017)
The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth Goriely, A (01 Jan 2017)
New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: July 2009 Amar, M Goriely, A Müller, M Cugliandolo, L (22 Sep 2011)
Integrability and Nonintegrability of Dynamical Systems Goriely, A (2001)
Preferred address

Mathematical Institute

Recent publications
Correlating tau pathology to brain atrophyusing a physics-based Bayesian model
Goriely, A Engineering with Computers (07 Jun 2022)
Active filaments I: Curvature and torsion generation
Kaczmarski, B Moulton, D Kuhl, E Goriely, A Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 164 (10 May 2022)
The universal program of linear elasticity
Yavari, A Goriely, A MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS OF SOLIDS (07 May 2022) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000796554500001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e
Centrioles generate a local pulse of Polo/PLK1 activity to initiate mitotic centrosome assembly
Wong, S Wilmott, Z Alvarez-Rodrigo, I Zhou, F Chau, K Goriely, A Raff, J EMBO Journal volume 41 (03 May 2022)
Rheology of Growing Axons
Oliveri, H de Rooij, R Kuhl, E Goriely, A (04 Apr 2022)
The role of clearance in neurodegenerative diseases
Brennan, G Thompson, T Oliveri, H Rognes, M Goriely, A (Apr 2022)
A rod theory for liquid crystalline elastomers
Goriely, A Moulton, D Mihai, L Journal of Elasticity (27 Jan 2022)
Mathematical models of neuronal growth
Oliveri, H Goriely, A Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology volume 21 89-118 (07 Jan 2022)
The physical basis of mollusk shell chiral coiling
Chirat, R Goriely, A Moulton, D Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences volume 118 issue 48 (22 Nov 2021)
Centrioles generate a local pulse of Polo/PLK1 activity to initiate mitotic centrosome assembly
Wong, S Wilmott, Z Saurya, S Alvarez-Rodrigo, I Zhou, F Chau, K Goriely, A Raff, J bioRxiv (26 Oct 2021)
Predicting brain atrophy from tau pathology: a summary of clinical findings and their translation into personalized models
Schafer, A Chaggar, P Thompson, T Goriely, A Kuhl, E Brain Multiphysics volume 2 (12 Oct 2021)
Nematic liquid crystalline elastomers are aeolotropic materials
Mihai, L Goriely, A Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences volume 477 issue 2253 (08 Sep 2021)
Braiding Braak and Braak: staging patterns and model selection in network neurodegeneration
Putra, P Thompson, T Chaggar, P Goriely, A Network Neuroscience volume 5 issue 4 929-956 (31 Aug 2021)
Effects of B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 on COVID-19 dynamics: a campus reopening study
Linka, K Peirlinck, M Schafer, A Ziya Tikenogullari, O Goriely, A Kuhl, E Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering volume 28 issue 6 4225-4236 (23 Aug 2021)
Universal deformations in anisotropic nonlinear elastic solids
Yavari, A Goriely, A Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 156 (20 Aug 2021)
Ligand-assisted growth of nanowires from solution
Burlakov, V Goriely, A Applied Sciences volume 11 issue 16 (20 Aug 2021)
Liquid crystal elastomers wrinkling
Goriely, A Mihai, L Nonlinearity volume 34 issue 8 (06 Jul 2021)
Instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers
Mihai, L Goriely, A MRS Bulletin volume 46 issue 9 784-794 (17 Jun 2021)
Global and local mobility as a barometer for COVID-19 dynamics.
Linka, K Goriely, A Kuhl, E Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology volume 20 issue 2 651-669 (Apr 2021)
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.
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