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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 fortunate to be 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.
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