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Image of Prof. Heather Harrington

Prof. Heather Harrington

PhD
Status
Academic Faculty

Royal Society University Research Fellow

+44 1865 273510
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/harrington/
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1705-7869
Research groups
  • Machine Learning and Data Science
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Research subgroups
  • Topological Data Analysis
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications

Publications/preprints can be found on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Research interests

Applied algebra, chemical reaction network theory, mathematical modeling, topological data analysis, systems biology

Recent publications
Topological model selection: a case-study in tumour-induced angiogenesis.
McDonald, R Byrne, H Harrington, H Thorne, T Stolz, B Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) btag065 (12 Mar 2026)
Topology of Multi-species Localization
Natarajan, A Chaplin, T Bull, J Mulholland-Illingworth, E Leedham, S Byrne, H Jimenez, M Harrington, H (03 Mar 2026)
COMBINATORIAL GEOMETRY OF RATIONAL QUASI-INDEPENDENCE MODELS AS TORIC FIBER PRODUCTS
Coons, J Harrington, H Paul, N Algebraic Statistics volume 17 issue 1 1-31 (01 Jan 2026)
Persistent homology classifies parameter dependence of patterns in Turing systems
Spector, R Harrington, H Gaffney, E Bulletin of Mathematical Biology volume 88 issue 1 (24 Dec 2025)
Topology across scales on heterogeneous cell data
Torras-Pérez, M Yoon, I Weeratunga, P Ho, L Byrne, H Tillmann, U Harrington, H PLoS Computational Biology volume 21 issue 10 (15 Oct 2025)
Prizes, awards, and scholarships
Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020
Adams Prize 2019
LMS Whitehead Prize 2018
Royal Society URF 2017-2022
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2014-2017
Hooke Research Fellowship 2013-2014
NSF Graduate Fellowship 2007-2010
Barry M Goldwater Scholarship 2005-2006
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London Mathematical Society Good Practice Scheme Athena SWAN Silver Award (ECU Gender Charter) Stonewall Silver Employer 2022

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