Professor of Applied Mathematics and EPSRC fellow

​My research falls into the broad area of "continuum mechanics" or more specifically in the areas of solid mechanics, acoustics, elasticity, elastodynamics, homogenization and micromechanics.  Applications of this work lie in metamaterials, industrial composites and biological media such as soft tissue and bone.  I am also interested more generally in the mathematical modelling of physical processes and industrial problems, and the application and development of novel mathematical methods.

I jointly lead the Waves In Complex Continua (WICC) group in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. This group was launched in September 2010 with financial support via grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, The Royal Society and industry, primarily from Thales Underwater Systems Ltd.

I am an Associate Editor for the journals Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Wave Motion and Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics.

I am Programme Director of the MSc in Applied Mathematics at Manchester. This includes pathways in Industrial Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. We have strong links to a number of industrial collaborators and in particular these companies provide sponsorship for students to work on dissertations of practical importance.
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Congratulations to Will Rowley, our Dyson sponsored PhD student, who won the SIAM Prize for best presentation at the recent Oxford BAMC 2016. Great talk Will! 
Well done to Georgia Lynott, our Thales sponsored PhD student. Georgia won the "best talk" prize at the recent SIAM Student Chapter meeting in Manchester!
Congratulations to our postdoc Art Gower who recently won the prestigious "Golden Welly" at the recent Durham study group for the quote "We need to use a smooth step function". Well done Art.
Congratulations to WICC student David Nigro who has obtained a research position with Thales Underwater Systems, once he completes his PhD in Sept.
Our WICC Waves group meetings occur regularly, see the associated webpage.  If you'd be interested in visiting us and speaking at one of these meetings please email me or Raphael Assier at Raphael.Assier@manchester.ac.uk