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I was an
undergraduate in Mathematics at Imperial College, University
of London
and graduated in 1980, and followed this
with an MSc
in Theoretical Mechanics at the University
of East
Anglia.
I returned to Imperial to study for a
PhD from 1981 to 1983 supervised jointly
by John
Gibbon and Raymond
Hide,
who was then at the UK
Meteorological Office. My research
involved studies of nonlinear phenomena
in rotating fluids. I then worked in the
NHS for 18 months, first as a National
Management Trainee and then as as Adminstrator in
North West London. During this time, I
completed my PhD in Applied Mathematics
and graduated in 1985.
Later that year, I was appointed as a
Research Assistant working on bioconvection
with John
Kessler and Tim
Pedley
in the Department of Applied Mathematics
and Theoretical Physics at the University
of Cambridge.
After three and half years, I moved to a
second postdoc
position with Rob
Davis in Chemical
Engineering at the University of
Colorado in Boulder working on the fluid
dynamics of sedimenting
suspensions for 18 months.
I joined the Department of Applied
Mathematics at the University
of Leeds
in November 1989, first as a Lecturer
and then Senior Lecturer. In August
2001, I took up the Simson Chair of
Mathematics at the University
of Glasgow.
I was Head of Department from 2003 to
2007, and Head of the newly-merged
School of Mathematics & Statistics
from 2010 to 2014.
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