An EconoTimes perspective

Christian Yates

Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology and author of "The Maths of Life and Death" out September 2019, University of Bath

Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology and author of "The Maths of Life and Death" out September 2019, University of Bath I'm a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. I work on a diverse range of areas of Biology in which randomness plays an important role. I have studied the migration behaviours of cells in order to understand early embryonic diseases and the collective behaviour of locusts in order to help prevent outbreaks. I have worked to understand how ants make their descisions as a group and modelled how parasites can effectively evade the immune system. I have developed frameworks for better representing evolutionary game theory and tools for tracking the movement patterns of bacteria. I have even tried to demonstrate how birds' eggs and zebrafish get their beautiful patterns. Who knew that Maths could be so useful?