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
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.
Recent publications
Generalized invariants meet constitutive neural networks: a novel framework for hyperelastic materials
Martonova, D Goriely, A Kuhl, E Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 206 issue A (15 Sep 2025) CAA-related enlarged perivascular spaces are associated with abnormal angioarchitecture in human brain tissue: A key role for white matter atrophy?
Giraud, M Yun, D Munting, L Chung, K Bacskai, B Greenberg, S Frosch, M Goriely, A van Veluw, S Lorthois, S Cerebrovascular and Brain Metabolism Reviews 271678x251369256 (08 Sep 2025) Nonlinear Cauchy elasticity
Yavari, A Goriely, A Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis volume 249 issue 5 (01 Sep 2025) Decomposing force fields as flows on graphs reconstructed from stochastic trajectories
Nartallo-Kaluarachchi, R Expert, P Strang, A Lambiotte, R Goriely, A Kringelbach, M Proceedings of the Third Learning on Graphs Conference 4:1-4:26 (30 Jul 2025) Personalised regional modelling predicts tau progression in the human brain
Chaggar, P Vogel, J Binette, A Thompson, T Strandberg, O Mattsson-Carlgren, N Karlsson, L Stomrud, E Jbabdi, S Magon, S Klein, G Hansson, O Goriely, A PLoS Biology volume 23 issue 7 (21 Jul 2025) 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) Post-buckling of fiber-reinforced soft tissues
Liu, Y Liu, R Ma, W Goriely, A Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 203 (17 Jun 2025) Local resonance of mechanosensitive channels
Qi, B Lin, S Guo, Y Feng, L Su, L Liu, Y Goriely, A Lu, T Liu, S Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids volume 203 (17 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 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)