Ruth Baker

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Ruth Baker
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Applied mathematician and mathematical biologist
Known forPattern formation, morphogenesis, and the mathematical modeling of cell biology and developmental biology.

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.

Education and career

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]

Recognition

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]

References

  1. ^ a b Thompson, Robin (Spring 2018), "Research interview – Professor Ruth Baker", Society for Mathematical Biology Newsletter
  2. ^ Ruth Baker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Prof. Ruth Baker, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, retrieved 2020-03-15
  4. ^ "Fellows and Lecturers" (PDF), Chronicle, St Hugh's College, Oxford, p. 60, October 2014 – September 2015
  5. ^ 2014 LMS Prize Winners, London Mathematical Society, retrieved 2020-03-15
  6. ^ Ruth Baker and Alex Scott awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowships, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, June 2017, retrieved 2020-03-15