Philip Maini

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
• Tutorial Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford
• Titular Professor of Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford;
• Director, Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
• Chair in Mathematical Biology
• Professorial Fellow, St John's College

EDUCATION:
1979-1985 University of Oxford (Balliol College)
1980 1st Class Honours Moderations (Mathematics)
1982 BA (1st Class Honours) in Mathematics
1985 DPhil (Mathematics)
1986 MA

AWARDS, PRIZES, HONOURS:
Dec 1978 Open Exhibition, Balliol College, Oxford
June 1980 Open Scholarship, [Mouat-Jones Scholar] Balliol College, Oxford
June 1982 Prosser Prize, Balliol College, Oxford
Oct 1997 Bellman Prize for best paper published in Mathematical Biosciences 1994-96 (paper [44])
2001-2002 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
Jan 2002 Elected Life Membership, Clare Hall, Cambridge
Sept-Oct 2002 Distinguished Foreign Visiting Fellow, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
June 2003 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
July 2005 Elected Honorary Guest Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
2006-10: ARC Federation Fellowship, University of Sydney [not taken up]
2006-11 Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award
2008 Tewkesbury Bequest International Visitor, University of Melbourne (Nov-Dec)
2009 LMS Naylor Prize
2010 Distinguished Research Fellow, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa
2011 Walker Ames Guest Scholar, University of Washington, Seattle

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Mathematical and computational modelling of temporal and spatiotemporal phenomena in a number of areas in the life sciences, including developmental biology, wound healing, cancer biology and bacterial chemotaxis.

Research projects include the modelling of avascular tumours, normal and abnormal wound healing, collective motion of social insects, bacterial chemotaxis, rainforest dynamics, pathogen infections, immunology, vertebrate limb development and calcium signalling in embryogenesis. Models are developed for these processes and analysed using the appropriate techniques, including stability analysis, asymptotics, multi-timescale analysis, numerical simulation, lattice-gas and agent based modelling and computation. The key aim in many applications is the vertical integration of processes occurring on multiple length and timescales.

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