Professor David Rand is currently Chair of Warwick’s Department of Mathematics. He has held long-term visiting research professorships at the Institute des Hautes Etudes, Paris, the NSF Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, Cornell University and the University of Arizona. He led the development of Applied Mathematics at Warwick which took it from almost nothing in the early 80s to its present strength and he also created Warwick’s mathematical interdisciplinary programme MIR@W. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals (including the Royal Society journal Interface) and co-founded the journal Nonlinearity. Until 1990 his primary research field was dynamical systems for which he was awarded the London Mathematical Society’s Whitehead Prize. Since then he has been working at the interface between mathematics and biology. In particular, he currently leads an EPSRC and BBSRC funded multidisciplinary research programme using mathematics and statistics to understand cellular regulation (IPCR: Interdisciplinary Programme in Cellular Regulation) and is the associate director of an EPSRC Life Sciences Doctoral Training Centre.

David is a member of the Technical Opportunities Panel (TOP).