Glasgow Mathematical Biology Group
Department of Mathematics
University of Glasgow

               Reader in Applied Mathematics
Advanced Research Fellow
 Department of Mathematics
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QW
Scotland, U.K.
m.bees@maths.gla.ac.uk
Phone: +44 141 330 2058
Fax: +44 141 330 4111

My research interests are mainly in theoretical and experimental aspects of mathematical biology, such as

• bioconvection (a hydrodynamic instability caused by swimming micro-organisms; including hydrogen/biofuel production),
  
• bacterial swarming (rapid colonization of surfaces by bacteria),
  
• chemically driven hydrodynamic instabilities,
  
• slug-nematode-beetle biocontrol measures and
  
• plankton dynamics (especially plankton patchiness & synchronisation).  
  

Employment

• Reader in Applied Mathematics (1/2007 - )
  
• EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (10/2006 - 9/2011)
  
• Department of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow (3/2002 - ); Lecturer (3/2002-3/2004); Senior Lecturer (4/2004-12/2006); Mathematical Biology group
  
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Surrey (11/1998 - 3/2002) Lecturer; BioMaths group
• Physics Departments of The Technical University of Denmark and the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen (4/1997 - 10/1998) Assistant Research Professor; CATS group
• Biological Sciences Department and the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Warwick (10/1996 - 4/1997) Postdoctoral Researcher; EAMG group
• Mathematics Department, University of Leeds (1992 - 1996)  PhD
• Oxford University, Balliol College (1989 - 1992)  Mathematics BA & MA
• New College, Swindon (1987 - 1989)
  
• Kingsdown Comprehensive School, Swindon (1982 - 1987)
• Date of Birth: 18/2/1971
  

Publications
My list of publications can be found here. 

Grants
EU TMR 2wk study visit grant to Barcelona, “Access to supercomputing facilities” (1999).
EPSRC earmarked studentship award in Mathematical Biology.  “The effects of turbulence and a patchy environment on the dynamics of plankton populations,” 1999.
EPSRC grant: “Mathematical modelling of beetle-nematode slug-biocontrol” (£52.7k; 2000/01) – postdoctoral research assistant (18 months), computing & travel.  In collaboration with Microbio Ltd. and Longashton Research Station, associated with Univ. Bristol.
EU TMR 2wk study visit grant to Barcelona, “Access to supercomputing facilities” (2000).
EPSRC studentship award in Mathematical Biology.  “Blood pressure regulation in the nephron,” (2000).
Surrey University Vice-Chancellor’s grant for computing equipment (£1k; 2000).  
EU TMR 2wk study visit grant to Barcelona, “Access to supercomputing facilities” (2001).
Royal Society Research Visit grant to Canada (£1.3k; Apr 2001; 3 weeks).
Surrey University Vice-Chancellor’s grant for conference travel (£0.4k; 2001).  
Grants associated with Euromech 422, “Pattern formation by motile micro-organisms and cells” (Dec. 2001), Univ. Leeds: LMS, Newton Inst., EPSRC.
EU TMR 2wk study visit grant to Barcelona, “Access to supercomputing facilities” (2002).
Environmental Mathematics and Statistics EPSRC-NERC studentship, (2003).  Joint with the National Oceanographic Centre (formerly known as Southampton Oceanographic Centre).  PI in Glasgow = MAB, PI in SOC = Dr. A. Martin.
The Burn Postgraduate Event.  Funding from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. (£2k; 2006)
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (£660k; Oct 2006-Sept 2011).
The Burn Postgraduate Event.  Funding from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. (£2k; 2007)
Edinburgh Mathematical Society research visitor grant (£1.5k; August 2007).

Administration (major roles only)
Head of IT (Oct 2004-Sept 2006)
Head of Level 4 (the final year of the undergraduate programme; Jan 2003-Sept 2004)
Exchange Student Advisor (April 2002-Sept 2006)
Student admissions (joint), Mathematics, Surrey

Teaching (undergraduate only)
Experience in teaching and examining undergraduate University Mathematics since 1999: Mathematical Biology, 3rd year mathematics, University of Surrey (1999-2002); Techniques in Calculus I 1st year mathematics, University of Surrey (1999-2001); Techniques in Calculus II, first year mathematics, University of Surrey (2000 and 2001); Mechanical Modelling, level 2 mathematics, University of Glasgow (3rd term 2002); Calculus, first year mathematics, University of Glasgow (2002-2003); Fluid Dynamics, level 4 mathematics, University of Glasgow (2002-2005); Partial Differential Equations/Differential Equations II, level 3 mathematics, University of Glasgow (2003-2005); Industrial placement tutor (students have up to 3 visits/year; 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002).

Current Postdoctoral Researchers:
Ottavio Croze
(from 1/9/2008)
EPSRC funded project on "Bioconvection and hydrogen production in suspensions of green algae."

Past Postdoctoral Researchers:
David Schley
(2/2000-8/2001)
David gained his PhD in Mathematics at Surrey University (1999) after obtaining his PGCE from Cambridge University (1996) and BA(Hons) and MA(Oxon) in Mathematics from Oxford University (1995). His main area of interest is population dynamics, including the mathematical modelling of nematode/beetle slug-biocontrol (an EPSRC funded project on Slug Biocontrol).

Current PhD students:
Ehsan Ashraf
(11/2006-)
Ehsan is working on applying Resistance Force Theory to interacting cells of green algae. Flt. Lt. Ehsan Ellahi Ashraf obtained a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from Punjab University Lahore, and an MSc and an MPhil in Applied Maths from Quaid-E-Azam University Islamabad. He was in the Pakistan Air Force, where he was an Instructor of Mathematics.  
Stephen O'Malley
(01/2007-)
Stephen is employing the method of regularised Stokeslets to model the swimming of bi-flagellated algae. Stephen gained a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde.  

Past PhD students:
Dr (Charlotte) Rosie Williams
(2005-2009)
Rosie constructed models of phototactic bioconvection and hydrogen production in suspensions of green algae. She also conducted experiments on photo-gyrotactic bioconvection. Rosie gained a BSc in Mathematics from UCL.  
Dr Emma Jane Guirey
(2004-2007)
Emma's thesis was on synchronisation in plankton ecosystems (EMS; joint with Southampton Oceanography Centre). Emma gained a BSc in Mathematics from Warwick and an MSc in Oceanography from Southamption University.
Dr Richard Hillary
(1999-2003)
Richard completed his PhD project on plankton patch formation and dynamics.  His thesis included aspects of plankton patch synchronisation, inertial segregation and bloom formation in complex flows and reaction-advection-diffusion mechanisms.
Richard gained a BSc in Mathematics from Warwick and an MSc in Nonlinear Mathematics from UCL.
Ian Purvey
(2000-2001)
I supervised Ian past his MPhil/PhD transfer after one year of study on blood flow autoregulation in nephrons at the University of Surrey, before passing the supervision on to Dr. A. Skeldon when I moved to the University of Glasgow.   Ian previously gained an MMath from Surrey.
 

24th June 2008