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• Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2019)
• Postgraduate certificate in Academic Practice (2018)
• Member of the London Mathematical Society (2016)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2016)
• PhD in Applied Mathematics, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ (2013)
• MSci (Hons) in Mathematical Sciences, University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ (2009)

John has, in some form, been in the School of Mathematics at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ since commencing studies as an undergraduate student in 2005.

Following completion of his EPSRC-funded PhD studies in 2013, John transferred to an EPSRC-funded postdoctoral research position, followed by a teaching fellowship, which was followed by a fixed-term lecturer position in Applied Mathematics.

Following these fixed-term positions, John was appointed to his current position as a flying-faculty lecturer within the School of Mathematics. He has now manged to temporarily leave the School of Mathematics, as a visiting lecturer at Jinan University, specifically, in his role at the Jinan University - University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ joint institute.

John’s research interests primarily concern well-posedness and qualitative behaviour of solutions to boundary value problems for partial differential equations. Ideally in situations close to, or being, ill-posed, so the results are somewhat counter-intuitive, and consequently, awkward to obtain.

John has given a variety of lecture courses at levels: F (Introductory Mathematics); C (Jinan Vectors, Geometry and Linear Algebra); I (Introduction to C++); and H and M (Chaos / Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems). He has supervised numerous dissertations at levels H and M.

John has been involved in delivery and administration of various widening participation schemes including: Access to Birmingham (A2B), Realising Opportunities (RO), and Nuffield placements.

Semester 1

LC Real Analysis (Jinan)

John supervises PhD students in applied mathematics, MSc Financial Engineering (16 dissertations supervised) and MSc Mathematical Modelling (2 dissertations supervised).

Research Themes

• Qualitative theory for solutions to boundary value problems for elliptic/parabolic PDE
• Maximum & Tangency principles for elliptic/parabolic PDE
• E-assessment of mathematics

Research Activity

Reaction-Diffusion Theory – Specifically in the local but non-Lipschitz nonlinearity setting, and the regular non-local nonlinearity setting. Primarily concerning well-posedness, but also counter-intuitive qualitative properties of solutions.

Maximum & Tangency Principles - These provide qualitative information about solutions to boundary value problems for elliptic and parabolic partial differential inequalities.

Applied analysis on mathematical models arising from heat and mass transfer, chemical reaction kinetics, and mathematical physics.

Mathematics Education – Specifically related to e-assessment.

J-BJI Head of Education (Oct 20 - Jul 23)

J-BJI Deputy Lead (May 19 - Oct 20)

J-BJI CAA Lead (May 18 - Sep 19)

Mathematics Lead for A2B & RO schemes (Mar 18 - Mar 20)