Teaching

I teach a wide range of mathematics courses to undergraduate and graduate mathematicians, engineers, and medical students. I also have a particular interest in teaching mathematics and modelling to non-mathematicians. To this end, I regularly organise and teach on Summer Schools in mathematical and computational biology.

I believe that mathematical approaches to biology should be presented to as wide an audience as possible. Mathematical reasoning and analysis, and associated conceptual frameworks, should play a central role in science. The full potential of quantitative approaches will only emerge when experimental-focused and theory-focused researchers share a common set of aims and objectives. To achieve this, it will be necessary to go beyond teaching mathematical techniques to biologists, and biological facts to mathematicians; what is needed is the development of a shared conceptual language and framework.