The Society is pleased to announce that Professor Mark Chaplain FRSE has been nominated as President Elect of the London Mathematical Society.
Professor Chaplain received his PhD in 1990 from the University of Dundee under the supervision of Brian Sleeman. He was appointed as a lecturer in applied mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath in September 1990. In 1996 he moved back to Dundee as a Senior Lecturer, then Reader, before being appointed to a personal chair in Mathematical Biology in 2000. He was appointed Ivory Chair of Mathematics in 2013 before moving to his current position as Gregory Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of St Andrews in 2015. While at Dundee he was Head of Division (2006-2013) and was Head of School at St Andrews (2018-2023). He was the recipient of a Leverhulme Personal Research Fellowship (2007-2009) and ERC Advanced Investigator Award (2009-2014).
Professor Chaplain’s main area of research is multiscale mathematical modelling of cancer growth and treatment, and he has an international reputation in this field, having carried out pioneering work in this area since the late 1980s. Throughout his research career he has undertaken collaborative, interdisciplinary research with colleagues in biochemistry, developmental biology, cancer biology, and clinical oncology. He has developed mathematical models which have provided several new insights into the mechanisms underlying the growth of cancers and laid the foundation for developing novel potential therapeutic treatment strategies via personalised medicine.
He was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize in 2000 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003. He served as a Member-at-Large of LMS Council (2017-2019). Professor Chaplain has supported the wider mathematical community both nationally and internationally. He has served as Secretary and Treasurer of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (1998-2002); President, Society for Mathematical Biology (2005-2007); and President, Edinburgh Mathematical Society (2011-2013).