Nationality British Doctoral advisor James D. Murray Fields Mathematics | Alma mater Balliol College Name Philip Maini | |
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Born Philip Kumar Maini
16 October 1959 (age 64)
Magherafelt, Northern Ireland ( 1959-10-16 ) Institutions University of Oxford
University of Utah Thesis On mechanochemical models for morphogenetic pattern (1985) Notable awards Naylor Prize and Lectureship (2009)
FRS (2015) Residence United Kingdom, United States of America | ||
Prof philip maini turing s theory of developmental pattern formation
Philip Kumar Maini (born 16 October 1959 in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish mathematician. Since 1998, he has been the Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford and is the head of the Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute.
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- Prof philip maini turing s theory of developmental pattern formation
- Philip maini examples of collective cell movement in biology
- Education
- Research and career
- Awards and honours
- References
Philip maini examples of collective cell movement in biology
Education
Maini was educated at Rainey Endowed School in County Londonderry and Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985 for modelling morphogenetic pattern formation supervised by James D. Murray
Research and career
After various postdoctoral research and teaching positions at Oxford and the University of Utah, he became Director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in 1998, then Statutory Professor in Mathematical Biology and Professorial Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford in 2005.
Maini's research includes mathematical modelling of tumours, wound healing and embryonic pattern formation, and the theoretical analysis of these models. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
Awards and honours
Maini was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:
Maini was an elected member of the Boards of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Society of Biology, and is a Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has held visiting positions at universities worldwide.
Maini co-authored a 1997 Bellman Prize-winning paper and received a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and Wolfson Research Merit Award, and the London Mathematical Society Naylor Prize.