About Philip Maini
Philip Kumar Maini (born 16 October 1959 in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish mathematician. Since 1998, he has been the Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford and is the director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute. == Personal life == Philip Maini is the son of father Panna Lal Maini and mother Satya Wati Bhandari. Panna Lal and Satya Wati were from Punjab, India. Panna Lal traveled to Northern Ireland in 1954. He had sailed to London on the ship RMS Maloja of the Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company arriving there on 18 February 1954. Satya Wati and Philip's elder brother Arvind did not arrive in Northern Ireland until 1957. == Education == Maini was educated at Rainey Endowed School in County Londonderry and Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a BA in 1982 and a DPhil in 1985, the latter for a thesis modelling morphogenetic pattern formation supervised by James D. Murray == Research and career == After a postdoctoral research position at Oxford and an associate professorship at the University of Utah, he returned to Oxford in 1990 as university lecturer in mathematical biology with a tutorial fellowship at Brasenose College, Oxford. He became director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology in 1998, then Statutory Professor in Mathematical Biology and professorial fellow of St John's College, Oxford in 2005. Maini's research includes mathematical modelling of tumours, wound healing and embryonic pattern formation, and the theoretical analysis of these models.
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