Philip Maini
Philip Kumar Maini ( born October 16, 1959 in Magherafelt ) is a British mathematician who deals with mathematical biology.
Life
Maini studied from 1979 Mathematics at Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1982, the Master's degree in 1986 and his doctorate in 1985 at James D. Murray. From 1984 he was a lecturer at the College Corpus Christi College and 1987/ 88 at Balliol College, Oxford ( between 1986 he was Assistant Master at Eton ). 1987/88 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and in 1987 Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. In 1990 he was University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at Oxford ( and tutor at Brasenose College) and 1998 Professor and Director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology. He was professorial fellow of St John 's College, Oxford, 2005.
2006 to 2009 he was also a professor at the Queensland Institute of Technology in Brisbane. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Bonn, the University of Utah, the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Leipzig, the Paris-Sud University, the University of Tokyo, the National Autonomous University in Mexico City, Leiden University, the University of Florence, at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in Recife, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara and the University of Washington.
Work
He dealt with model training, for example in cancer biology ( for example, a multiscale model for vascular tumors), chemotaxis of bacteria, normal and abnormal wound healing, developmental biology ( bone formation in vertebrates, calcium signaling system in embryogenesis, examination of models of morphogenesis with mechanical effects, pattern formation ) pattern formation in slime molds ( Dictyostelium ), collective movement of insects, dynamics of rain forests, immunology and epidemiology. He showed, among other things, that heterogeneity in tumor modeling can have great impact on their development over time and various cell cycle Regularionsmechanismen of the protein p27 tumor cells in a low-oxygen environment provide advantages over normal cells (which the thesis supported that the different behavior of normal and tumor cells due to lack of oxygen, this protein is ). In developmental biology, he examined, among others, on mathematical models such as various bone abnormalities in the embryo development of the mouse can result in wound healing and how certain Transforming growth factor - beta reduce the scarring.
The methods used range from stability theory and bifurcation analysis of systems of differential equations ( ordinary and partial ), examination of asymptotes and at multiple scales in time and space to numerical simulation with agents and lattice gases.
Honors and Memberships
He was a Fellow of Clare College Lifetime 2002. 2001/ 02 he was a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Society Leverhulme Trust.
In 2009 he was awarded the Naylor Prize and in 2006 the Wolfson Prize of the Royal Society. He is SIAM Fellow and member of the Academia Mexicana.