"People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding."
Richard Phillips Feynmam
Computational and theoretical modelling is essential to understand the fundamental mechanisms behind how organisms function and how diseases progress. Modelling is a process of making simplifying and idealising assumptions in order to reveal mechanisms underlying the system; it involves both applying existing modelling methodology to new biological systems and developing new theoretical formalisms, numerical schemes and simulation platforms that are appropriate to capture the dynamic and/or stochastic behaviour of specific biochemical or biological systems.
Academic staff in this area
Dr Pedro Ballester
Dr Pedro Ballester
Computational drug design and AI modelling for precision oncology
Dr Pete Lally
Dr Pete Lally
Developing image acquisition and reconstruction techniques using MRI physics
Dr Chiu Fan Lee
Dr Chiu Fan Lee
Biophysics of pattern formation
Dr Spyros Masouros
Dr Spyros Masouros
Modelling injury and protective strategies
Professor James Moore Jr
Professor James Moore Jr
Lymphatic and cardiovascular biomechanics, mass transport in immunology
Dr Nic Newell
Dr Nic Newell
Developing computational models of the spine to understand injury and assess implant designs
Professor Kim Parker
Professor Kim Parker
Arterial hemodynamics and cardiac mechanics
Dr Tom Ouldridge
Dr Tom Ouldridge
Principles of biomolecular systems
Professor Simon Schultz
Professor Simon Schultz
Computational neuroscience; information theoretic neural data analysis
Professor Molly Stevens
Professor Molly Stevens
AI approaches for image analysis, rational design of DNA structures
Professor Reiko Tanaka
Professor Reiko Tanaka
Computational systems biology and medicine
Professor Anthony Bull
Professor Anthony Bull
Musculoskeletal modelling and computational biomechanics
Professor Mengxing Tang
Professor Mengxing Tang
Image computing, signal processing and ultrasound modelling
Professor Peter Weinberg
Professor Peter Weinberg
Numerical studies of flow in arteries and bioreactors
Dr Choon Hwai Yap
Dr Choon Hwai Yap
Cardiac developmental biomechanics
Dr Dandan Zhang
Dr Dandan Zhang
Biomedical & bio-inspired robotics, micromanipulation, human-robot interaction,multimodality sensing
Professor Etienne Burdet
Professor Etienne Burdet
Sensorimotor control and learning
Dr Hayriye Cagnan
Dr Hayriye Cagnan
Theoretical models of brain circuits
Dr James Choi
Dr James Choi
Modelling of ultrasound interactions with acoustic particles and biological tissue
Professor Claudia Clopath
Professor Claudia Clopath
Computational neuroscience
Professor Aldo Faisal
Professor Aldo Faisal
Machine learning for healthcare, computational neuroscience, behaviour analytics
Dr Juan Álvaro Gallego
Dr Juan Álvaro Gallego
Movement neuroscience and neuroprosthetics