Kevin J Painter.

I use mathematical and computational modelling to understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of natural systems. I work on various problems, with applications in embryonic development and morphogenesis, physiology and disease progression, animal migration and navigation and structuring of the environmental landscape.

Recorded talks and lecture series (click on the title for link to video recording):

"Nonlocal aggregation models for biological movement". Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 9th November 2023.
"A biased random walk through models of biological movement". Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Lecture 1, July 2023.
"The challenges of ocean navigation". Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, Lecture 2, July 2023.
"Individual and collective navigation through complex landscapes". International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, July 2022.
"Connecting individual and population-level models for the movement and organisation". Summer School on Stochastic modelling in the life sciences, Hausdorff Centre for Mathematics, May 2022. Four lectures: Lecture 1; Lecture 2; Lecture 3; Lecture 4.
"Collective navigation and migration: from cells to whales". Banff International Research Station, Casa Matematica Oaxaca, September 2021.
"Turing's theory for morphogenesis: past, present, and future". Banff International Research Station, Banff, June 2019.
"Assembling the masses", Inaugural Lecture, Heriot Watt, Edinburgh, February 2019.

Media releases (click on links)

Whales may get lost in a noisy ocean, see this piece.
The challenges of turtle navigation to Ascension Island - e.g. see articles in ITV (UK), The National, Glasgow Times, The Mail
The impact of anthropogenic noise on whale navigation - e.g. see pieces at Pursuit, Australia; Le scienze (Italian).
How animals get their white patches - e.g. see pieces in The Guardian (UK), Huffington Post, Focus (Italian), Scientific American, Spectrum (German).

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