CV

Academic positions

2009 - present Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of York
2005 -2009 Reader in Mathematics and Biology (joint appointment), University of York
2001- 2005 Lecturer in Mathematics, City University, London

Research Fellowships

2018 - 2023         Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship
2018 - 2023         EPSRC Established Career Fellowship
2014 - 2015          Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow
2004 - 2008         EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
2000 - 2001 Marie Curie Fellow / EU personal fellowship (University of York)
1997 - 2000 Dorothea Erxleben Fellow, Tech. University of Clausthal, Germany
1989 - 1997 Fellow of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes"
(both for undergraduate and postgraduate study)

Qualifications

1997 PhD in Mathematical Physics (Clausthal, Germany; with distinction)
1993 MSc in Mathematics (Bath; with distinction)

Distinctions

• Elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) in 2012
• First female mathematician to deliver the Plancherel Lecture in Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2011
• Ladyzhenskaya lecture in Leipzig (Germany) in 2012
• Mary Cartwright Lecturer of the London Mathematical Society in 2014
• Gresham Lecturer in 2015
• Lighthill Lecture (British Applied Mathematics Colloquium) in 2018
• Gold Medal of the IMA in 2018

Membership in professional bodies

• EPSRC Peer Review College
• London Mathematical Society Research Policy Committee (2013 – 2016)
• Standing Committee of the international conference series "Applications of Group Theoretical Methods in Physics"
• EPSRC Strategic Advisory Teams in Mathematics (2007 - 2013) and Healthcare (2008-2011)
• Scientific Steering Committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge (2010-2013)
• EPSRC Mathematics Taxonomy Working group (2015)
• Editorial Board Membership: “Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine” – An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Mathematical, Theoretical and Clinical Aspects of Medicine (Taylor & Francis Group, Eds. Siv Sivaloganathan & Pamela
F. Jones); Molecular Based Mathematical Biology” – VERSITA Emerging Science (editor-in-chief: Guowei Wei, Michigan
State University)

Case studies:

• EPSRC-funded case study “Mathematics Matters” by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (see “Fighting Infections with Symmetry”, 2011)
• Case study of the Isaac Newton Institute (INI) in Cambridge (2011)
• London Mathematical Society (LMS) Impact150 case study (2016)

Documentaries:

• One of nine mathematicians in the UK to be featured in the LMS documentary “Thinking Space” that was shown at the
Science Museum in London on 25/11/15 in celebration of the 150-year jubilee of the London Mathematical Society
• Selected for BBC4 documentary on Mathematics in Nature, presented by Hannah Fry.

Selected commentaries and feature articles:

• Commentary by Peter Prevelige, “Follow the Yellow Brick Road: A Paradigm Shift in Virus Assembly”, J. Mol. Biol. 428,
p. 416-8, 2016
• Research highlight in Nature Physics (“Know your onions”, Vol. 10, p.244, 2014)
• front page article of the SIAM (US Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) News Life Science Special Issue (Volume
49, Number 7, September 2016)
• Quanta Magazine (July 2017): “The illuminating geometry of viruses”