UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE  The Nonlinear Centre

Permanent staff

Prof Michael Proctor  (Director of the Nonlinear Centre)    (email)
Research interests: Magnetohydrodynamics and dynamo theory, bifurcations in convection, dynamics of patterns.
 
Dr Yuri Suhov     (email)
Research interests: Dynamical systems, statistical mechanics (classical and quantum), queueing networks, random processes and fields.
 
Prof Nigel Weiss  (email)
Research interests: Solar and stellar magnetic fields, astrophysical fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics.
 
Dr Gabriel Paternain    (email)
Research interests: Symplectic geometry and Hamiltonian dynamics.
 
Prof Thanasis Fokas     (email)
Research interests: Nonlinear integrable systems.
 

Visiting researchers

Prof Konstantin Khanin     (email)
Research interests: Nonlinear and chaotic dynamics, random dynamical systems, ergodic theory, probability theory and random walks, statistical mechanics.

Postdocs / Research Fellows

Dr Jonathan Dawes     (email)
Research interests: Bifurcation theory for systems with symmetry, mode interactions, the fluid mechanics of rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection. S-I-R models of multiple virus strains.
 
Julia Gog     (email)
Research interests: Models of multiple virus strain dynamics
 
Dr Isabel Irurzun     (email)
Research interests: Pattern formation in surface catalysis.
 
Dr Andrei Kapaev      (email)
Research interests: Painleve equations, integrable systems.
 
Dr João Lopes Dias     (email)
Research interests: Dynamical systems, renormalisation and universality, Hamiltonian dynamics, chaos.
 
Dr Vangelis Marinakis     (email)
Research interests: Nonlinear integrable systems of ODEs and PDEs, singularity analysis, magnetoencephalography, imaging of the brain.
 

Research Students

 
Steve Houghton      (email)
Research interests: Localised structures in magnetoconvection
 
Joel Miller      (email)
Research interests: Pattern - forming instabilities in non-Newtonian fluids.
 
Claire Postlethwaite      (email)
Research interests: Heteroclinic cycles and networks.
 
Jennifer Siggers      (email)
Research interests: Nonlinear dynamics of targets and spirals in Rayleigh-Benard convection, pattern formation, symmetries of dynamical systems and bifurcation theory.
 
Philip Treharne      (email)
Research interests: Boundary value methods for linear and nonlinear PDEs
 

Short-term visitors

Assistant Staff

Gill Newton    (email)

Associated People

Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
Timothy Pedley
John Dougherty (email)

  Past Members and their current locations