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
Research groups
Research subgroups
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent books
Preferred address
Mathematical Institute
Recent publications
The Darboux classification of curl forces
Yavari, A Goriely, A Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical volume 58 issue 27 (03 Jul 2025) Hierarchical mechanical patterns in morphogenesis: from mollusc shells to plants, fungi and animals
Moulton, D Goriely, A Chirat, R Journal of the Royal Society Interface volume 22 issue 227 (25 Jun 2025) A mechanical model for the failure of reconstructive breast implant surgery due to capsular contracture
Xiao, Y Edelstein-Keshet, L Goriely, A Isaac, K Bulletin of Mathematical Biology volume 87 issue 7 (20 Jun 2025) Understanding and misunderstanding cell counts of the human brain: the crux of biological variation
Goriely, A Brain (15 Apr 2025) Reply: Understanding and misunderstanding cell counts of the human brain: the crux of biological variation.
Goriely, A Brain : a journal of neurology awaf137 (15 Apr 2025) The multiscale mechanics of axon durotaxis
Kassianides, C Goriely, A Oliveri, H Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 200 (05 Apr 2025) Modelling cerebrovascular pathology and the spread of amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease
Ahern, A Thompson, T Oliveri, H Lorthois, S Goriely, A Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences volume 481 issue 2311 (02 Apr 2025) Multilevel irreversibility reveals higher-order organization of nonequilibrium interactions in human brain dynamics.
Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, R Bonetti, L Fernández-Rubio, G Vuust, P Deco, G Kringelbach, M Lambiotte, R Goriely, A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America volume 122 issue 10 e2408791122 (07 Mar 2025) Multilevel irreversibility reveals higher-order organisation of non-equilibrium interactions in human brain dynamics
Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, R Bonetti, L Fernandez-Rubio, G Vuust, P Deco, G Kringelbach, M Lambiotte, R Goriely, A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences volume 122 issue 10 (07 Mar 2025) Eighty-six billion and counting: do we know the number of neurons in the human brain?
Goriely, A Brain : a journal of neurology volume 148 issue 3 689-691 (Mar 2025) Ultra-fast physics-based modeling of the elephant trunk
Kaczmarski, B Moulton, D Goriely, Z Goriely, A Kuhl, E Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 106102-106102 (01 Mar 2025) Physics-informed recovery of nonlinear residual stress fields in an inverse continuum framework
Sanz-Herrera, J Goriely, A Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 200 (27 Feb 2025) Elephant trunk wrinkles: a mathematical model of function and form
Liu, Y Goriely, A Mihai, A Nonlinearity volume 38 (06 Feb 2025) Reply: Yes, the human brain has around 86 billion neurons.
Goriely, A Brain : a journal of neurology awaf049 (06 Feb 2025) A network aggregation model for amyloid-β dynamics and treatment of Alzheimer’s diseases at the brain scale
Brennan, G Goriely, A Journal of Mathematical Biology volume 90 issue 2 (01 Feb 2025) Erratum: Broken detailed balance and entropy production in directed networks [Phys. Rev. E 110, 034313 (2024)]
Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, R Asllani, M Deco, G Kringelbach, M Goriely, A Lambiotte, R Physical Review E volume 110 issue 6 069901 (24 Dec 2024) Two for tau: Automated model discovery reveals two-stage tau aggregation dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease
Stockman, C Goriely, A Kuhl, E Initiative, A Brain Multiphysics volume 7 100103 (Dec 2024) Eighty-six billion and counting: do we know the number of neurons in the human brain?
Goriely, A Brain volume 148 issue 3 689-691 (27 Nov 2024) Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber
Box, F Moulton, D Vella, D Lowe, T Goriely, A Thorogood, C Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences volume 121 issue 50 (25 Nov 2024) 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.