Ruth Baker
British mathematical biologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ruth Elizabeth Baker is a British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford whose research interests include pattern formation, morphogenesis, and the mathematical modeling of cell biology and developmental biology.
Ruth Baker | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Applied mathematician and mathematical biologist |
| Known for | Pattern formation, morphogenesis, and the mathematical modeling of cell biology and developmental biology. |
Baker read mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford,[1] and earned a doctorate (D.Phil.) at the University of Oxford in 2005. Her dissertation, Periodic Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology: A Study of the Mechanisms Involved in Somite Formation, was jointly supervised by biologist Santiago Schnell and mathematician Philip Maini, who was also the doctoral supervisor of Schnell.[2]
After postdoctoral research in Germany, the US, and Australia, funded by a UK Research Council Junior Research Fellowship, she returned to a permanent position at Oxford.[1] She is a professor of applied mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford[3] and a tutorial fellow in mathematics in St Hugh's College, Oxford since 2010.[4]
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Baker was a 2014 winner of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society "for her outstanding contributions to the field of Mathematical Biology".[5] She was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her work in "efficient computational methods for testing biological hypotheses" in 2017.[6]
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