Julia Rose Gog is a British mathematician and professor of mathematical biology in the

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at the

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. She is also a David N. Moore

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, director of studies in

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and a member of both the Cambridge immunology network and the infectious diseases interdisciplinary research centre.

Education

Gog was educated at the University of Cambridge where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree followed by PhD in 2003.

Career and research

Gog is a specialist in

mathematical and theoretical biology Mathematical and theoretical biology, or biomathematics, is a branch of biology which employs theoretical analysis, mathematical models and abstractions of the living organisms to investigate the principles that govern the structure, development a ...

and the study of

infectious disease An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...

s, particularly

influenza Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms range from mild to severe and often include fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, and fatigue. These symptoms ...

and

coronavirus disease 2019 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly ...

. In 2020, she served on the

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(SAGE) advising the

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on its response to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

. Gog's paper ''The influenza virus: it's all in the packaging'' was included in the book ''50 Visions of Mathematics'', published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), a book "designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics ... without frying your brain". Her research has been funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to universi ...

(EPSRC).

Awards and honours

In 2015 Gog was awarded Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching by the University of Cambridge, and in 2016 she was involved in the National Young Mathematicians' Awards, a project in which 490 schools competed. She was awarded the

Whitehead Prize The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C. Whiteh ...

in 2017 by the London Mathematical Society, and the

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prize by the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

in 2020. Gog was awarded a

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(URF) which she held from 2004 to 2012. In 2017, Gog was one of 13 mathematicians featured in the touring photographic exhibition ''Women of Mathematics''. It showed photographs by Noel Tovia Matoff and extracts from interviews with the women. In 2020, Gog won the

Rosalind Franklin Award The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award was established in 2003 and is awarded annually by the Royal Society to an individual for outstanding work in any field of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to support the promo ...

. She was appointed

Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(OBE) in the

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for services to academia and the COVID-19 response.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gog, Julia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British women mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge 21st-century women mathematicians Officers of the Order of the British Empire