Rebecca Bryony Hoyle is a professor of applied mathematics at the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

, and associate dean for research at Southampton. She was the London Mathematical Society Mary Cartwright Lecturer for 2017.

Research

Hoyle describes herself as ''an interdisciplinary mathematician working on dynamical processes in biology and social science''. Her 2017 LMS Mary Cartwright Lecture, entitled ''Transgenerational plasticity and environmental change'', illustrates her work in

evolutionary biology Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes ( natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life ...

but her research is broader than that, touching on diverse topics in applied mathematics including dynamic network analysis and

industrial ecology Industrial ecology (IE) is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modelled as a network of industrial processes that extract resources from the Earth and transform those resource ...

. She is the author of the book ''Pattern Formation: An Introduction to Methods'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Education and career

Hoyle read mathematics at the

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, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1989, took the

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in 1990, and completed her Ph.D. in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Instabilities of Three Dimensional Patterns'', was supervised by Michael Proctor. After postdoctoral study at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

she returned to Cambridge as a research and teaching fellow, but after a brief stint at McKinsey & Company she moved to the University of Surrey in 2000. She moved again to Southampton in 2016.

Awards

Hoyle won the inaugural

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Prize in 2021, awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications for knowledge exchange in mathematics and its applications. Hoyle is a founding member of the Virtual Forum for Knowledge Exchange in Mathematical Sciences (V-KEMS) and was awarded the prize primarily for her role in setting up V-KEMS and for promoting effective knowledge exchange during the

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