Brasenose College, Oxford - Dr Eamonn A Gaffney
Dr Eamonn A Gaffney
Name and title
Dr Eamonn A Gaffney
Brasenose Status
Official Fellow
Role or Position
University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Biology).
Qualifications
PhD (Cambridge), MA (Cambridge).
Academic Background
I studied mathematics at The University of Cambridge, prior to a PhD in Mathematical Physics, followed by a Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Training Fellowship in Mathematical Biology at The University of Oxford. I proceeded to become a faculty member at The School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham for several years with duties ranging from lecturing to admissions tutor, in addition to research. I have recently returned to Oxford University to take up a faculty position in the Mathematical Institute and a tutorial fellowship at Brasenose College.
Undergraduate Teaching
Within college I give tutorials in applied mathematics for the first two years of the degree programme which supplements University lectures. As with all other colleges, mathematics undergraduates in later years attend University lectures, supported by intercollegiate classes. My university teaching currently consists of lecturing the thrid year course Mathematical Biology and Ecology plus giving intercollegiate classes in the Masters level course, Mathematical Physiology. I have previously taught and lectured across a broad range of applied mathematics, covering topics not only in my speciality of mathematical biology, but as diverse as special relativity, linear control theory and fluid dynamics.
Research Interests
My research is primarily in the general area of biological and biomedical applications of mathematics. Topics I am actively pursuing, and actively recruiting DPhil students for, include:
Modelling tumours and chemotherapy scheduling.
Pattern formation mechanisms especially on growing domains and, more recently, involving time delays.
Mathematical and Biological aspects of reaction diffusion systems. These range from mathematically based stability studies and to modelling transport phenomena on biologically realistic domains, captured by imaging.
Microbiological fluid dynamics including muco-ciliary dynamics and spermatozoa dynamics.
Models of cell movement, signalling and interaction.
Some recent publications
- S Seirin Lee, EA Gaffney, Aberrant Behaviours of Reaction Diffusion Self-organisation Models on Growing Domains in the Presence of Gene Expression Time Delays Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2010), DOI:10.1007/s11538-010-9533-4
- H Gadelha, EA Gaffney, DJ Smith, JC Kirkman-Brown, Nonlinear instability in flagellar dynamics: a novel modulation mechanism in sperm migration?, J. Royal Society Interface (2010), DOI:10.1908/rsif.2010.0136
- S Seirin Lee, EA Gaffney, NAM Monk, The Influence of Gene Expression Time Delays on Gierer-Meinhardt Pattern Formation Systems, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2010), doi:10.1007/s11538-010-9532-5
- H Shum, EA Gaffney, DJ Smith, Modelling bacterial behaviour close to a no-slip plane boundary: the influence of bacterial geometry, Proc Roy Soc A (2010) 466 p1725-1748.
- P Moreo, EA Gaffney, JM Garcia-Anzar, M Doblare, On the modelling of biological patterns with mechanochemical models: insights from analysis and computation, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2010), 72, p400-431.
- A Madzvamuse, EA Gaffney, PK Maini, Stability analysis of reaction-diffusion systems with time-dependent coefficients on growing domains, Journal Of Mathematical Biology (2010), 61, p133-164
- EA Gaffney, JM Tiffany, N Yokoi, AJ Bron, A Mass and Solute Balance Model for Tear Volume and Osmolarity in The Normal And The Dry Eye, Progress in Retinal And Eye Research (2010), 29, p59-78.
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