Professor Mark Chaplain
Gregory Chair of Applied Mathematics, University of St Andrews
Homepage: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/mathematics-statistics/people/majc/
PhD: University of Dundee 1990
Previous Appointments:
1990 - 1996: Lecturer, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath
1996 - 1998: Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
1998 - 2000: Reader, Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
2000 - 2013: Personal Chair in Mathematical Biology, Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
2013 - 2015: Ivory Chair of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
Research Interests: Mathematical biology, with a specific focus on multiscale mathematical oncology – modelling the growth, development and treatment of cancer. Also, a personal interest in the History of Mathematics.
LMS Service: Member-at-Large of LMS Council, 2017 – 2019.
Additional Information: Secretary and Treasurer of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (1998-2002); President, Society for Mathematical Biology (2005-2007); President, Edinburgh Mathematical Society (2011-2013); REF2013 Panel Member, Panel B, Sub-panel 10 Mathematical Sciences; REF2021 Panel Member, Panel B, Sub-panel 10 Mathematical Sciences.
Personal Statement: It is a great honour to be the President of the LMS at an exciting time for UK mathematical sciences. The last few years have seen the profile of mathematical sciences raised (e.g. COVID-19, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence), with the general public more aware of the subject, its uses and capabilities. Coming from a research area that is traditionally inherently inter-disciplinary, I have also witnessed the relatively recent growth of new, fruitful intra-disciplinary activities with collaborations between (for example) mathematical modellers, statisticians, topologists, graph theorists, applied analysts, group theorists and numerical analysts. The LMS is in a unique position to nurture, foster, support and encourage such interactions across the whole discipline in both research and teaching activities throughout the UK and beyond. The formation of the new Academy for Mathematical Sciences promises to give the subject a deserved and overdue national visibility, and I look forward to working closely with the Academy as well as continuing the existing healthy relationships with the other learned societies (EMS, IMA, RSS, ORS, CMS).
The Society’s new strategy 2023-2028 already provides a roadmap for the focus of the up-coming work of the society, and it will be a privilege to serve the UK mathematical sciences community over the coming years as LMS President. I look forward very much to maintaining and strengthening its current activities and ensuring that the society is best placed to respond to the coming challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.