Andrew Fowler

Biography

  Andrew Fowler was an undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, gaining a first in mathematics in 1974, and then he wrote a D.Phil. on glacier dynamics under the supervision of Alan Tayler, submitted in 1977 and granted in 1978. From 1977 to 1980 he was a postdoc at Trinity College Dublin, where he continued working on glaciology, and also started work on mantle convection, a subject which he still pursue. After that, he went to M.I.T., first as Instructor, and then as Assistant Professor (in the Mathematics Department). He left M.I.T. in 1985 to take up a University lecturership in Mathematics at Oxford University, together with a Fellowship at Corpus Christi College. In 1999 he was appointed Adjunct Professor in the University of Limerick, and from November 2007, he was appointed Stokes Professor in Limerick, in association with the creation of the Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI). 

Research Interest

  Fowler's research interests cover a wide range of applications of mathematical modelling in the applied sciences, including geophysics, biology and industrial problems, and using analytical, asymptotic and numerical methods of analysis to obtain useful results.