Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group

Our group applies mathematical, computational, and statistical techniques to address research questions in the life and social sciences.

Research areas

Much of our research is interdisciplinary. Group members collaborate closely with researchers in biology, ecology and medicine from a range of universities, research institutes and industries. We use an exceptionally broad range of mathematical techniques, encompassing the full range of current applied mathematics.

How do our antibodies change their function? | Immunology

Cellular systems and quantitative systems pharmacology

Considering both fundamental biological processes such as tissue development and cell signalling, and applications based research in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.

Data science and statistical design

Expertise in the design of experiments, the development of new data assimilation methods and novel methods for the analysis of physiological time series.

Epidemiology, ecology and population genetics

In recent years at Surrey, mathematicians have worked on some particularly novel projects in ecology, epidemiology and population genetics.

Mathematical criminology

Developing a range of agent-based and partial-differential equations-based models to analyse the qualitative behaviour of crime and combine with data.

Sleep and circadian rhythms

Using mathematical models at many different scales to help understand the structure of the complex biological rhythms of our bodies.

Studentships

Mathematical models for preclinical drug trials: small molecule drugs and antibody drug conjugates

Funding information:

Standard UKRI stipend and fees covered.

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NC3R awards Carina Dunlop a £135k grant for a 4-year PhD studentship on digital twin development

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Bin Cheng gives the Lothar-Collatz-Colloquium for Applied Mathematics at Universität Hamburg

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Our people

Professor David Lloyd

Head of the Mathematics of Life and Social Sciences Group

I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey. My research interests are in localised pattern formation and mathematical modelling. I am deputy head of the School of Mathematics & Physics and director of learning and teaching for the School. I am also co-founder and director of the Surrey Centre for Criminology at the Unive...

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Upcoming seminars

We run regular seminars throughout term discussing mathematical, computational, and statistical techniques and ongoing research we are doing in the group.

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