We are an interdisciplinary group of mathematicians at the University of St Andrews. We work on modelling and data analysis for biology and medicine, with key strengths in cell biology, oncology, and statistical inference. Recent contributions provided descriptions of cancer metastasis, intracellular mechanics, biological pathway dynamics and cellular decision making. Further research interests include theoretical ecology, partial differential equations on evolving manifolds, biological pattern formation, free boundary problems in biology, evolutionary dynamics in structured populations and evolutionary game theory, as well as statistical inference, model selection, and information theory.

The group picture above includes staff, PhD students and MSc students on our MSc programme in Mathematical Biology. Specifically, pictured from left to right are: Jim Yang, Nikolaos Sfakianakis, Nadia O’Hara, Aimee Bebbington, Anna Chmielewska, Sascha Schultz, Jochen Kursawe, Mark Chaplain, Lorna Jamieson, and Giorgos Minas. The picture below additionally contains Cypres Verbeeck, Giulia Rubini and Maria Fernandez Garcia. Further group members are listed in the panel on the top right.