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Prof. Eamonn Gaffney

Status
Academic Faculty

Professor of Applied Mathematics 

Tutorial Fellow, Mathematics Tutor, Tutor for Graduates, Brasenose College

+44 1865 283876
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/gaffney/
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-4362
Research groups
  • Mathematical Biology
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Recent publications
Squirmer hydrodynamics near a periodic surface topography
Ishimoto, K Gaffney, E Smith, D Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology volume 11 (13 Apr 2023)
Systematic parameterizations of minimal models of microswimming
Walker, B Ishimoto, K Gaffney, E Physical Review Fluids volume 8 (29 Mar 2023)
Spatial heterogeneity localizes Turing patterns in reaction-cross-diffusion systems
Gaffney, E Krause, A Maini, P wang, C Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B volume 28 issue 12 6092-6125 (20 Mar 2023)
Hydrodynamic slender-body theory for local rotation at zero Reynolds number
Walker, B Ishimoto, K Gaffney, E Physical Review Fluids volume 8 issue 3 (02 Mar 2023)
The developmental basis of fingerprint pattern formation and variation
Glover, J Sudderick, Z Shih, B Bartho-Samblas, C Charlton, L Krause, A Anderson, C Riddell, J Balic, A Li, J Klika, V Woolley, T Gaffney, E Corsinotti, A Anderson, R Johnston, L Brown, S Wang, S Chen, Y Crichton, M Headon, D Cell volume 186 issue 5 940-956 (09 Feb 2023)
Concentration-dependent domain evolution in reaction–diffusion systems
Krause, A Gaffney, E Walker, B Bulletin of Mathematical Biology volume 85 (13 Jan 2023)
Squirmer hydrodynamics near a periodic surface topography
Ishimoto, K Gaffney, E Smith, D (01 Jan 2023)
Research interests

My research objectives are typically to extract the macroscale consequences of mechanisms operating at much smaller scales, usually the microbiological level, for instance how cells interact and signal, together with the associated biophysics of reaction, diffusion, deformation and flow.  This requires detailed mathematical modelling, combined with mathematical analyses, asymptotics, computation and model interpretation within numerous application areas of the life and biomedical sciences. The application areas include cell motility, especially flagellated cell swimming, bacterial dynamics, ecological invasions and mechanisms of biological self-organisation together with the modelling of select processes in physiological transport and solid tumour development. 

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