Welcome. I am the Professor of Mathematical Modelling at the University of Oxford and a member of the Mathematical Institute. I am the director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM), the director of the International Brain and Mechanics Lab (IBMATL, with Antoine Jérusalem), a fellow of St Catherine’s College (Catz), and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).

At the Mathematical Institute, I was the first director of External Relations and Public Engagement until 2022 and created the public lecture series.

Research

Research

Public work

Public work

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@AlainGoriely

23 March 2023

If you are interested in the "Origin of Living Matter", I encourage you to submit an abstract (before 31st March) to the symposium I am organizing on this topic in the upcoming International Conference on Biological Physics (ICBP2023) in Seoul in August.
https://t.co/IY2YhMnn0m

A physics-based model explains the prion-like features of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

1 January 2018

Scientists have charted how toxic proteins might creep through the brain and destroy its cells in conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
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Enjoy VSI in Applied Mathematics

10 October 2018

The first popular science book about Applied Mathematics is now available on Amazon.
Check it out (comes with a playlist on Youtube)
Enjoy!