Degrees

BA, MA, PhD, ScD – all in applied mathematics and all from Cambridge

Awards and prizes

1977 Adams Prize

1993 Member, Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars

1995 Fellow of the Royal Society

1995–2000 Senior Fellow, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1999 Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Engineering

2001 Fellow, American Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering

2002–2006 Chair, World Council for Biomechanics (WCB)

2004–2005 President, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)

2005 Fellow, American Physical Society

2006–2007 President, Cambridge Philosophical Society

2007 Foreign Fellow. National Academy of Sciences – India

2008 Gold Medal of the IMA

2008–2012 President of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM)

2011 Member, Academia Europaea

Research interests

Fluid mechanics, applied to problems in biology and medicine

Teaching interests

Fluid mechanics and applied mathematics

Other interests

Bird-watching, running