Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde

Steve is a John Anderson Research Lecturer in Mathematical Medicine at the University of Strathclyde (since May 2007). His research is in Mathematical Biology, particularly in modeling cell-cell interactions, computational cell biology, systems biology and infectious diseases. He obtained his doctorate in Mathematics from Heriot-Watt University in 2000, then did postdoctoral work at Minnesota (2000-2001), Loughborough (2001-2004) and Nottingham (2004-2005) before taking up a research position in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield (2005-2007).

He is director of the Glasgow Centre for Mathematics Applied to the Life Sciences and on the Strathclyde University steering group for the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance. He currently supervises five Ph.D. students (EPSRC, CRUK and Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance funded) and one PDRA (funded by EPSRC).

He has a track record of applied mathematical collaborative research into a range of biological problems (epidemiology, antibiotic production in actinobacteria, cardiovascular disorders, developmental cell signalling and cancer gene therapy) with a range of experimental and clinical collaborators throughout the UK.

For more information on some of his current research topics click on one of the highlighted links:

• Modelling tumour growth and therapy
• Cellular signalling
• Spatial complexity in ecology and epidemiology

PhD students

• Fiona Roberts (Aug 2007 - )
  Modelling targetted cancer gene therapy.
  Funded by the Strathclyde University Research Excellence Fund.

• Andrew Hill (Oct 2007 - , joint with Dr Louise Kelly, Maths & Stats)
  Modelling transmission of Salmonella in pigs.
  Funded by the Veterinary Laboratories Agency.

• Miss Maymona Al-Husari (Oct 2008 - )
  Modelling the causes and consequences of the tumour microenvironment.
  Funded by EPSRC.

• Miss Leena Nieminen (Oct 2008 - , joint with Dr Paul Hoskisson, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences)
  Modelling metabolic switching in Streptomyces coelicolor.
  Funded by the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance.

• Miss Aoibhinn Bradley (Oct 2009 - )
  Modelling Spatially Extended Disease Interactions.
  Funded by EPSRC.

• Mr James Burns (Oct 2010 - , joint with Dr John Mackenzie)
  Computational modelling: a tool for understanding 3D cell migration, invasion and metastasis.
  Funded by CRUK.

• Dr Ian Sorrell (Apr 2011 - )
  Modeling targeted delivery of biomimetic polymer vesicle gene therapy to cancer.
  Funded by EPSRC.

• Dr Alex Best (Oct 2009 - , joint with Prof Mike Boots, University of Sheffield)
  Testing the role of spatial structure in ecology and evolution.
  Funded by NERC.

• Dr Matt Neilson (Mar 2008 - Aug 2010, joint with Dr John Mackenzie)
  Computational modelling of cell chemotaxis.
  Funded by CRUK and MRC.

• Centre for Mathematics Applied to the Life Sciences (CMALS).
• Society for Mathematical Biology.
• Population Modelling and Epidemiology (PME) Group.
• Mathematics in Medicine Study Groups.
• NC3Rs.

• PME Seminars
• Mathematics Colloquia
• CMALS Events