Staff
Ben Walker

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Ben Walker

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology (growth, mechanics, and microscale locomotion)
  • Fluid mechanics (Stokes flow and asymptotic techniques)
  • Dynamical systems (reaction-diffusion problems, asymptotic analysis)

Ben’s research focuses on problems of mechanics and growth that arise in biology, and the application of mathematical techniques to analyse, simplify, and understand models of biological systems. He often makes use of asymptotic techniques applied to fluid and solid mechanics, along with the classical methods and approaches of mathematical biology through the study of phenomenological models. His research has included the study of swimming on the microscale, modelling the interaction between growing tumours and their environments, and exploring reaction-diffusion equations on growing domains.

 

LINKS:

Ben Walker on University of Bath Research Portal

 

 

Lead Supervisors

Federico Cornalba

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Modelling of large-scale interacting particle systems
  • Analysis and numerics of stochastic PDEs of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
  • Reinforcement Learning methods
learn more

Avi Mayorcas

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Regularisation by noise in stochastic partial and ordinary differential equations
  • Stochastic quantisation of physical field theories
  • Game theory and mean field dynamics in macroeconomics and finance
learn more

Christoforos Panagiotis

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Percolation and lattice spin models
  • Probability on groups
  • Self-avoiding walk
learn more

Matthew Schrecker

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
  • Fluid dynamics (especially free boundary problems and nonlinear singularity formation)
  • Shock waves (their formation, structure and dynamics)
learn more

Haiyan Zheng

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Adaptive designs in clinical trials
  • Bayesian data augmentation
  • Finite mixture distributions
learn more

Andreas Kyprianou

Andreas was instrumental in the development of SAMBa and was Co-Director from its inception until the end of 2022. He has left the University of Bath to take up the role of Chair of Probability at the University of Warwick.

learn more

Jennifer Tweedy

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Mathematical medicine
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Mathematical modelling
learn more

Thomas Burnett

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Tom’s research interest is in medical statistics, with a particular focus on the design and analysis of adaptive clinical trials.

learn more

Vangelis Evangelou

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Generalised Linear Models: Modelling, Approximate Methods, Value of Information
  • Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Geostatistics: Modelling, Sampling Design
  • Time Series: Modelling, Sequential Analysis
learn more

Yury Korolev

Department of Mathematical Sciences

  • Inverse problems and imaging
  • Machine learning in infinite dimensions
  • Non-smooth variational problems
learn more