Ben Goddard

I am currently a Reader in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, and a member of the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Previous to this, I have been a lecturer at Edinburgh, preceded by postdocs in the groups of Serafim Kalliadasis (Imperial College, Chemical Engineering) and Volker Betz (University of Warwick, Mathematics, now TU Darmstadt, Mathematics). I undertook my PhD under Gero Friesecke (University of Warwick, Maths, now TU Munich, Mathematics).

Broadly speaking, my research concerns modelling, analysis and numerics for complex, multiscale systems. My work has applications in chemistry, physics, engineering and biology. Both the areas and techniques used in my research are very wide-ranging. I’m always happy to discuss my work with anyone, especially mathematicians, applied scientists, and prospective PhD students.

Trivia: I have Erdös number 4: Me –> Volker Betz –> Peter Mörters –> David Preiss –> Paul Erdös, and Bacon number 3: Me –(G103)–> Patrick Niknejad –(Harry Potter)–> Gary Oldman –(Criminal Law)–> Kevin Bacon.

This gives me an Erdös-Bacon number of 7.

News

17th October 2023

Paper published in JCP on sedimentation proceess in complex domains.

11th October 2023

Exciting paper published on slow-fast processes with multiple invariant measures.

23rd August 2023

New paper published on tobacco control, with some excellent collaborators in Informatics.

21st August 2023

This week I'm at ICIAM 2023 in amazing (and hot!) Tokyo.

25th July 2023

I'm in Loughborough for the next week or so, working with Andy Archer and David Sibley; great to be back!

17th July 2023

This week I'm co-organising (with a fantastic team) the 171st European Study Group with Industry at ICMS

1st May 2023

Welcome to Ogy, who is undertaking a project with me and Valerio on stochastic block models.

17th April 2023

This week I'm organising the ICMS and MAC-MIGS Modelling Camp.

11th April 2023

For the next few weeks I'm going to be collaborating with EDEM on code development.

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