John King is an applied mathematician with broad research interests both in the development of novel mathematical methodologies and in their application to multiscale problems in the biosciences, engineering, industry and medicine. He has made significant contributions to asymptotic (notably exponential-asymptotic) and symmetry methods and through wide-ranging studies of free-boundary problems and nonlinear-parabolic systems. Prominent applications include the development of new modelling approaches to tumour growth, to thin-film flows and to bacterial quorum sensing.
John actively promotes multidisciplinary research endeavours, including recently in the plant sciences and in synthetic biology. He has been based for almost his entire career in the Department of Theoretical Mechanics and the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Nottingham. He has been awarded a Whitehead Prize and the Naylor Prize and Lectureship by the London Mathematical Society and the Julian Cole Lectureship by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He is also a SIAM Fellow.
Professional position
- Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham
