Chris Breward
Academic Faculty
Mathematics
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Biography
Chris Breward was an undergraduate and graduate student at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. His MSc thesis was on "The spreading of solder" and his DPhil thesis was on "The Mathematics of Foam". After his education, he spent two years in Sheffield working in the medical school making mathematical models for the growth of vascular tumours. Since then, he have been at the University of Oxford in a variety of roles including MSc Coordinator, Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Research Facilitator, Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM) and he is currently Co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling (InFoMM). He hold a tenured research position. He have been a lecturer at Christ Church since 2004 (and was previously at St. Anne's.) He was Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM) for three years. He is also the Panel Chairman for the Mathematical Methods Panel for Mathematical Institute, and was the REF Coordinator for Mathematical Sciences for REF2014. Throughout his academic career, he have helped secure funding from a variety of sources – most notably the funding to start OCCAM from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and the funding for InFoMM, secured from EPSRC and 35 industrial partners.
Research Interest
Fluid mechanics; Surfactants; Mathematical modelling for industry and the biosciences. He is working on modelling tear films at the moment, and polymer-surfactant mixtures
Publications
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Bell CG, Breward CJ, Howell PD, Penfold J, Thomas RK. A theoretical analysis of the surface tension profiles of strongly interacting polymer–surfactant systems. Journal of colloid and interface science. 2010 Oct 15;350(2):486-93.
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Griffiths IM, Bain CD, Breward CJ, Chapman SJ, Howell PD, Waters SL. An asymptotic theory for the re-equilibration of a micellar surfactant solution. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 2012 Jan 24;72(1):201-15.
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Aydemir E, Breward CJ, Witelski TP. The effect of polar lipids on tear film dynamics. Bulletin of mathematical biology. 2011 Jun 1;73(6):1171-201.
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Griffiths IM, Bain CD, Breward CJ, Colegate DM, Howell PD, Waters SL. On the predictions and limitations of the Becker–Döring model for reaction kinetics in micellar surfactant solutions. Journal of colloid and interface science. 2011 Aug 15;360(2):662-71.
