Philip Kumar Maini (born 16 October 1959 in

Magherafelt Magherafelt (, �mˠaxəɾʲəˈfʲiːlt̪ˠə is a small town and civil parish in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 8,805 at the 2011 Census. It is the biggest town in the south of the county and is the social, econo ...

, Northern Ireland) is a

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mathematician. Since 1998, he has been the Professor of Mathematical Biology at the

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and is the director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute.

Personal Life

Philip Maini is the son of Panna Lal Maini and Satya Wati Bhandari. Panna Lal and Satya Wati were from Punjab in North West India. Panna Lal traveled to Northern Ireland in 1954. He had sailed to London on the ship Maloja of the Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company arriving there on 18 February 1954. Satya Wati and Philip's elder brother Arvind did not arrive in Northern Ireland until 1957.

Education

Maini was educated at

Rainey Endowed School Rainey Endowed School, known colloquially as "The Rainey", is a voluntary grammar school in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The school was founded in 1713 and has an enrolment of around 700 pupils. Each year group has a tota ...

in County Londonderry and Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a BA in 1982 and a

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in 1985, the latter for a thesis modelling morphogenetic

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supervised by James D. Murray

Research and career

After a

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position at Oxford and an associate professorship at the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

, he returned to Oxford in 1990 as a lecturer. He became director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in 1998, then Statutory Professor in Mathematical Biology and professorial fellow of St John's College, Oxford in 2005. Maini's research includes mathematical modelling of tumours, wound healing and embryonic pattern formation, and the theoretical analysis of these models. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). He has supervised 53 PhD students. From 2002 to 2015 Maini was the editor-in-chief of the '' Bulletin of Mathematical Biology'' and has served on the editorial boards of many other journals''.'' Maini gave an invited talk at ICM 2010 in

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, speaking on "Modelling Aspects of Tumour Metabolism."

Awards and honours

Maini was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: His certificate of election reads: Maini was an elected member of the boards of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Royal Society of Biology, and is a corresponding member of the

Mexican Academy of Sciences The Mexican Academy of Sciences ''(Academia Mexicana de Ciencias)'' is a non-profit organization comprising over 1800 distinguished Mexican scientists, attached to various institutions in the country, as well as a number of eminent foreign colle ...

. He has held visiting positions at universities worldwide. In 2017, he was elected to a fellowship of the

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and the next year elected a Foreign Fellow by the

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology. In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Acade ...

. In 2021, he was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Maini co-authored a 1997 Bellman Prize-winning paper and received a Royal Society

Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to suppo ...

Senior Research Fellowship and Wolfson Research Merit Award, and the London Mathematical Society Naylor Prize.

References

External links

Official web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maini, Philip 1959 births Living people People from Magherafelt People educated at Rainey Endowed School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford University of Utah faculty Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Mathematicians from Northern Ireland Theoretical biologists Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the Royal Society Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy