Philip Maini

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Philip Maini

FRS FMedSci
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Philip Maini in 2015
Born
Philip Kumar Maini

(1959-10-16) 16 October 1959 (age 63) [1]
Magherafelt, Northern Ireland [1]
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of Oxford (BA, PhD)
Parents
  • Panna Lal (father)
  • Satya Wati (mother)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis On mechanochemical models for morphogenetic pattern  (1985)
Doctoral advisor James D. Murray [4]
Doctoral students
Website people.maths.ox.ac.uk/maini/

Philip Kumar Maini FRS FMedSci (born 16 October 1959 in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish mathematician. Since 1998, he has been the Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford and is the director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute. [3] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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Personal life

Philip Maini is the son of Panna Lal Maini and Satya Wati Bhandari. Panna Lal and Satya Wati were from Punjab in North West India. Panna Lal traveled to Northern Ireland in 1954. He had sailed to London on the ship Maloja of the Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company arriving there on 18 February 1954. Satya Wati and Philip's elder brother Arvind did not arrive in Northern Ireland until 1957. [11]

Education

Maini was educated at Rainey Endowed School [1] in County Londonderry and Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a BA in 1982 and a DPhil in 1985, the latter for a thesis modelling morphogenetic pattern formation supervised by James D. Murray [4] [12]

Research and career

After a postdoctoral research position at Oxford and an associate professorship at the University of Utah, he returned to Oxford in 1990 as a lecturer. He became director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in 1998, then Statutory Professor in Mathematical Biology and professorial fellow of St John's College, Oxford in 2005. [2] [13]

Maini's research includes mathematical modelling of tumours, wound healing and embryonic pattern formation, [14] and the theoretical analysis of these models. [2] [7] [15] His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). [16] He has supervised 53 PhD students. [17]

From 2002 to 2015 Maini was the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology and has served on the editorial boards of many other journals. [13] Maini gave an invited talk at ICM 2010 in Hyderabad, speaking on "Modelling Aspects of Tumour Metabolism." [18]

Awards and honours

Maini was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. [2] His certificate of election reads:

Philip Maini's mathematical and computational modelling of spatiotemporal processes in biology and medicine has led to significant scientific advances in both. His work on biological pattern formation has led to detailed understanding of the roles of noise, domain growth and gradients in pattern generation. He has generalised the concept of gradient information and has proposed an experimentally consistent resolution of the chemotactic wave paradox. He has developed multiscale models for wound healing and for vascular tumour growth. He has thereby elucidated the underlying mechanisms by which particular growth factors reduce scar formation and has provided detailed insight into the design of combination cancer therapy. [19]

Maini was an elected member of the boards of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Royal Society of Biology, and is a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has held visiting positions at universities worldwide. [2] In 2017, he was elected to a fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences [20] and the next year elected a Foreign Fellow by the Indian National Science Academy. [21] In 2021, he was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences [22] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [23]

Maini co-authored a 1997 Bellman Prize-winning paper and received a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and Wolfson Research Merit Award, and the London Mathematical Society Naylor Prize. [2]

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  3. 1 2 Philip Maini publications indexed by Google Scholar
  4. 1 2 3 4 Philip Maini at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Schnell, Santiago (2002). On the quasi-steady-state approxiamation : coenzyme-substrate reactions as a case study (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  6. ↑ Maini, Philip. "Philip Maini Biographical information". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  7. 1 2 Philip Maini's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ "People | Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology". Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. 26 March 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  9. ↑ Prof. Philip Maini: Turing's Theory of Developmental Pattern Formation on YouTube
  10. ↑ Philip K. Maini, "Modelling collective cell motion" on YouTube
  11. ↑ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maini/
  12. ↑ Maini, Philip Kumar (1985). On mechano-chemical models for morphogenetic pattern formation (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  13. 1 2 "Philip K. Maini". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  14. ↑ Collier, Joanne R.; Monk, Nicholas A.M.; Maini, Philip K.; Lewis, Julian H. (1996). "Pattern Formation by Lateral Inhibition with Feedback: a Mathematical Model of Delta-Notch Intercellular Signalling". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 183 (4): 429–446. Bibcode:1996JThBi.183..429C. doi:10.1006/jtbi.1996.0233. ISSN   0022-5193. PMID   9015458.
  15. ↑ Plikus, Maksim V.; Mayer, Julie Ann; de la Cruz, Damon; Baker, Ruth E.; Maini, Philip K.; Maxson, Robert; Chuong, Cheng-Ming (2008). "Cyclic dermal BMP signalling regulates stem cell activation during hair regeneration". Nature. 451 (7176): 340–344. Bibcode:2008Natur.451..340P. doi:10.1038/nature06457. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   2696201 . PMID   18202659.
  16. ↑ "UK government grants awarded to Philip Kumar Maini". Research Councils UK . Swindon. Archived from the original on 31 December 2015.
  17. ↑ Philip K. Maini at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  18. ↑ ICM proceedings 2010 page 3091, Vol 4
  19. ↑ "Certificate of election EC/2015/27: Philip Kumar Maini". Royal Society . London. Archived from the original on 23 December 2015.
  20. ↑ "Professor Philip Maini". acmedsci.ac.uk. The Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  21. ↑ "INSA :: Foreign Fellow Detail". www.insaindia.res.in. Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  22. ↑ "European Academy of Sciences - Philip Maini". www.eurasc.org. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  23. ↑ "2021 AAAS Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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