Computational and theoretical modelling
"People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding."
Richard Phillips Feynmam
Computational and theoretical modelling is essential to understand the fundamental mechanisms behind how organisms function and how diseases progress. Modelling is a process of making simplifying and idealising assumptions in order to reveal mechanisms underlying the system; it involves both applying existing modelling methodology to new biological systems and developing new theoretical formalisms, numerical schemes and simulation platforms that are appropriate to capture the dynamic and/or stochastic behaviour of specific biochemical or biological systems.
Academic staff in this area
Dr Pedro Ballester
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Dr Pedro Ballester
Computational drug design and AI modelling for precision oncology
Professor Anthony Bull
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Professor Anthony Bull
Musculoskeletal modelling and computational biomechanics
Professor Etienne Burdet
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Professor Etienne Burdet
Sensorimotor control and learning
Dr James Choi
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Dr James Choi
Modelling of ultrasound interactions with acoustic particles and biological tissue
Professor Claudia Clopath
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Professor Claudia Clopath
Computational neuroscience
Professor Aldo Faisal
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Professor Aldo Faisal
Machine learning for healthcare, computational neuroscience, behaviour analytics
Dr Juan Álvaro Gallego
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Dr Juan Álvaro Gallego
Movement neuroscience and neuroprosthetics
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Dr Chiu Fan Lee
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Dr Chiu Fan Lee
Biophysics of pattern formation
Dr Spyros Masouros
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Dr Spyros Masouros
Modelling injury and protective strategies
Professor James Moore Jr
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Professor James Moore Jr
Lymphatic and cardiovascular biomechanics, mass transport in immunology
Dr Nic Newell
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Dr Nic Newell
Developing computational models of the spine to understand injury and assess implant designs
Professor Kim Parker
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Professor Kim Parker
Arterial hemodynamics and cardiac mechanics
Dr Tom Ouldridge
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Dr Tom Ouldridge
Principles of biomolecular systems
Professor Simon Schultz
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Professor Simon Schultz
Computational neuroscience; information theoretic neural data analysis
Professor Guy-Bart Stan
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Professor Guy-Bart Stan
Engineering and control of cells, synthetic biology, theoretical and computational modelling
Professor Molly Stevens
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Professor Molly Stevens
AI approaches for image analysis, rational design of DNA structures
Dr Reiko Tanaka
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Dr Reiko Tanaka
Computational systems biology and medicine
Professor Mengxing Tang
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Professor Mengxing Tang
Image computing, signal processing and ultrasound modelling
Professor Peter Weinberg
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Professor Peter Weinberg
Numerical studies of flow in arteries and bioreactors
Dr Choon Hwai Yap
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Dr Choon Hwai Yap
Cardiac developmental biomechanics