Manchester Mathematical Modelling in Science & Industry

Welcome to the homepage of MMMSI. This initiative is a community for PhD students in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester whose project involves mathematical modelling and engagement with researchers based in another department or in industry.

The directors of MMMSI are Prof. Will Parnell and Dr Marcus Webb.

PhD studentships for September 2021

  • We expect to advertise specific project studentships here and on findaphd.com by the end of April 2021.
  • You can also become a part of MMMSI through the normal PhD application channels in the Department of Mathematics, if the PhD project and supervisory team is appropriate for MMMSI.

    • Our aims

  • Encourage, through joint PhD project supervision, collaboration between different departments in the University of Manchester, and engagement with industry
  • Provide a community for our PhD students with common research interests more broadly than a typical close-knit research group
  • Provide PhD students with training opportunities via internal seminars, journal reading groups, and participation in events such as modelling challenges or industrial problem events

    • Current students, supervisors and projects

    Georgia Bradshaw Project: Spectral methods for inhomogeneous radiation chemistry
    Maths supervisor: Marcus Webb
    External supervisor: Fred Currell (Dep. Chemistry)
    Anna Gavrilova Project: Intracellular transport in neurons
    Maths supervisor: Sergei Fedetov
    External supervisor: Victoria Allen (Div. Molecular & Cellular Function)
    Shing Kwong Project: Novel mathematical models for understanding the evolution of birdsong
    Maths supervisor: Mark Muldoon
    External supervisors: Tucker Gilman (EES) and Patrycja Strycharchzuk (Linguistics and English Language)
    Jessica Mackin Project: ODE models of the cell biology of inflammation and apoptosis
    Maths supervisor: Mark Muldoon
    External supervisors: Mike White (Div. Molecular & Cellular Function) and Andrew Gilmore (Div. Cancer Sciences)
    Mark Mesbur Project: Multi-scale modelling of composite materials
    Maths supervisor: Will Parnell
    External supervisor: Paola Carbone (CEAS)
    Aidan Retallick Project: Modelling graphene membranes for nano-electro-mechanical devices
    Maths supervisors: Matthias Heil and Andrew Hazel
    External supervisor: Aravind Vijayaraghavan (Dep. Materials)
    James Shemilt Project: Modelling lung deposition of inhaled particles in cystic fibrosis
    Maths supervisors: Oliver Jensen and Alice Thompson
    External supervisors: Carl Whitfield and Alex Horsley (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health)
    Chung Tran Project: Artificial intelligence and advanced modelling for ground penetrating radar
    Maths supervisor: Oliver Dorn
    External supervisor: Frank Podd (Dep. Electrical Engineering)
    Tianran Wan Project: Multimodal data-based modelling for precision obstetrics medicine
    Maths supervisors: Igor Chernyavsky and Oliver Jensen
    External supervisor(s): Edward Johnstone (Dep. Maternal and Fetal Health) and Hwee Kuan Lee (Dep. Bioinformatics)
    Emily Butler Project: Decontamination-induced contamination redistribution
    Maths supervisors: Julien Landel and Joel Daou
    External organisation: DSTL
    Martyn Fyles Project: Developing local data analytics for hepatitis C elimination
    Maths supervisors: Thomas House, Ian Hall and Lorenzo Pellis
    External organisation: NHS and Joint Biosecurity Centre
    Ben Kent Project: Adaptive numerical methods for forward uncertainty quantification in time-dependent PDEs
    Maths supervisors: Catherine Powell and David Silvester
    External organisation: IBM
    Alexander Koch Project: Modelling the circadian clock
    Maths supervisors: Korbinian Strimmer and Thomas House
    External supervisor: Andrew Loudon, FPM
    Hugo Lewkowicz Project: Modelling infectious diseases in close contact environments
    Maths supervisors: Thomas House, Ian Hall and Lorenzo Pellis
    External supervisor: Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
    Hollie Lloyd Project: Particle-segregation and bulk granular flow in chutes, hoppers and rotating drums
    Maths supervisor: Nico gray
    External organisation: AstraZeneca
    Eleanor Russel Project: Thermal metamaterials
    Maths supervisors: Will Parnell and Raphael Assier
    External organisation: TBC
    Thomas White Project: The effect of different types of flow on sound propagation in ducts
    Maths supervisor: Will Parnell and Raphael Assier
    External organisation: TBC
    Vitalii Zankin Project: Bayesian uncertainty quantification for regression and inverse problems
    Maths supervisor: Kody Law
    External organisation: Alan Turing Institute
    Nissrin Alachkar Project: Modelling gene expression using Markov processes
    Maths supervisor: Mark Muldoon
    External supervisor: Pawel Paszek (Div. Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine)
    Rajenki Das Project: Modelling data from Cloudy with a Chance of Pain
    Maths supervisors: Mark Muldoon and Thomas House
    External supervisor: Mark Lunt (Div. Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences)
    Gabriele Incorvaia Project: Non-linear aspects of through-wall radar imaging and object characterisation and tracking
    Maths supervisor: Oliver Dorn
    External organisation: DTSL
    Helena Raymond-Hayling Project: Towards a quantitative understanding of the development of mechanical properties of connective tissues using tendon as a model tissue
    Maths supervisor: Tom Shearer
    External supervisor: Karl Kadler (Div. Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine)
    Luke Webb Project: Mathematical modelling tools for characterising patient pathways during emergency responses
    Maths supervisor: Ian Hall and Thomas House
    External supervisor: Paul Dark (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health)
    Holly Barker Project: Modelling the formation of uranium hydride blisters
    Maths supervisor: Andrew Hazel and Rich Hewitt
    External organisation: AWE
    Ben Calverley Project: Clockagen: Understanding and quantifying the link between collagen and the circadian clock through mathematical modelling
    Maths supervisor: Tom Shearer
    External supervisor: Karl Kadler (Div. Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine)
    Jess Forsyth Project: Registration of embryo images
    Maths supervisor: Simon Cotter
    External supervisor: Berenika Plusa (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health)
    Erik Garcia Neefjes Project: The theory of theremo-visco-elastodynamics for underwater and in-air metamaterials applications
    Maths supervisor: Will Parnell and Raphael Assier
    External organisation: Thales UK