Mathematical Biology
Mathematical Biology is the application of mathematical modelling to solve problems in biology and physiology. It is one of the fastest growing research areas in mathematics and is contributing significantly to our understanding of the biological world. It also produces new mathematical questions.
The Mathematical Biology Group is a member of the Centre for Mathematics Applied to the Life Sciences, established to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in Mathematical Biology. It is a joint centre of the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, under the Synergy agreement. Our research interests are summarised here, but the list is not exhaustive and new projects are being started all the time. For more information and contact details, click on the links below.
Staff
Dr Christina A Cobbold : Reader
Population dynamics of ecological systems; spatial ecology; evolutionary ecology in changing environments
Member of other research groups: Biostatistics and Statistical Genetics
Research student: Parag Gupta
Dr Jamie Gabe : Honorary Research Fellow/RA
Member of other research groups: Geometry and Topology, Algebra
Dr Hao Gao : Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Heart Modelling; biomechancis; MRI; fluid-structure interactions
Research students: Yalei Yang, Mohammed Ali A Aiyashi, Debao Guan
Supervisor: Xiaoyu Luo
Prof Nicholas A Hill : Simson Chair
Random walk models for movement of micro-organisms and animals; spatial point processes in plant ecology
Member of other research groups: Continuum Mechanics - Modelling and Analysis of Material Systems, Continuum Mechanics - Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Research students: Jay MacKenzie, Roxanna Barry, Laura Miller
Prof Xiaoyu Luo : Professor of Applied Mathematics
Biomechanics; fluid-structure interactions; mathematical biology ; solid mechanics
Member of other research groups: Continuum Mechanics - Modelling and Analysis of Material Systems, Continuum Mechanics - Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Research staff: Hao Gao, Wenguang Li, Qingying Shu
Research students: Liuyang Feng, Debao Guan, Xin Zhuan, Ahmed Mostafa Abdelhady Ismaeel, Jay MacKenzie
Dr Benn Macdonald : Research Assistant
Member of other research groups: Statistical Methodology
Supervisor: Dirk Husmeier
Dr Raimondo Penta : Lecturer
Member of other research groups: Continuum Mechanics - Modelling and Analysis of Material Systems, Continuum Mechanics - Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Research students: Tahani Al Sariri, Laura Miller
Dr Radostin Simitev : Reader
Reaction-diffusion equations; Excitable systems; Mathematical models of cardiac electrical excitation
Member of other research groups: Continuum Mechanics - Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Research students: Mohammed Ali A Aiyashi, Muhamad Bin Noor Aziz, Pete Mortensen, Tahani Al Sariri, Jamie Quinn
Postgraduate opportunities: Fast-slow asymptotic analysis of cardiac excitation models, Numerical simulations of planetary and stellar dynamos
Dr Peter Stewart : Senior lecturer
Member of other research groups: Continuum Mechanics - Modelling and Analysis of Material Systems, Continuum Mechanics - Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics
Research students: Roxanna Barry, Ahmed Mostafa Abdelhady Ismaeel
Dr Ben Swallow : Lecturer
Bayesian statistical inference; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods; data integration; model selection; stochastic processes
Member of other research groups: Statistical Methodology, Environmental Statistics
Postgraduates
Tahani Al Sariri : PhD Student
Supervisors: Raimondo Penta, Radostin Simitev
Roxanna Barry : PhD Student
Supervisors: Peter Stewart, Nicholas A Hill
Muhamad Bin Noor Aziz : PhD Student
Research Topic: Efficient asymptotic-numerical methods for cardiac
electrophysiology
Supervisor: Radostin Simitev
Liuyang Feng : PhD Student
Supervisor: Xiaoyu Luo
Debao Guan : PhD Student
Supervisors: Xiaoyu Luo, Hao Gao
Parag Gupta : PhD Student
Research Topic: Mathematical modelling of infection dynamics of Animal
African trypanosomiasis, an economically important livestock
disease.
Supervisor: Christina A Cobbold
Ahmed Mostafa Abdelhady Ismaeel : PhD Student
Supervisors: Peter Stewart, Xiaoyu Luo
Mikolaj Kundegorski : PhD Student
Supervisor: Colin Torney
Mx Jay MacKenzie : PhD Student
Supervisors: Nicholas A Hill, Xiaoyu Luo
Laura Miller : PhD Student
Member of other research groups: Continuum Mechanics - Modelling and Analysis of Material Systems
Supervisors: Raimondo Penta, Nicholas A Hill
Pete Mortensen : PhD Student
Supervisor: Radostin Simitev
Ionut Paun : PhD Student
Supervisors: Colin Torney, Dirk Husmeier
Xin Zhuan : PhD Student
Research Topic: Heart tissue remodelling under stress
Member of other research groups: Continuum Mechanics - Modelling and Analysis of Material Systems
Supervisor: Xiaoyu Luo
Postgraduate opportunities
Fast-slow asymptotic analysis of cardiac excitation models (PhD)
Supervisors: Radostin Simitev
Relevant research groups: Mathematical Biology
Mathematical models of cardiac electrical excitation describe processess ocurring on a wide range of time and length scales.