David J. Gavaghan (born 10 February 1966) is Professor of Computational Biology in the

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at the

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. He is also the director of the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, Principal Investigator of the Integrative Biology project and Research Fellow in Mathematics at

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Education

Gavaghan completed his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at

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in 1986. This was followed by a

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Numerical Analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic computation, symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of ...

and Mathematical Modelling in 1987 and his

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on the development of Parallel Numerical Algorithms in 1991 at

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Research and career

Gavaghan's research is interdisciplinary and involves the application of mathematical and computational techniques to problems in the

biomedical sciences Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to develop knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbio ...

. Gavaghan serves on the advisory board chair for the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).

References

1966 births Living people British bioinformaticians Alumni of Grey College, Durham Fellows of New College, Oxford Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Alumni of Linacre College, Oxford {{UK-scientist-stub