Ruth Baker

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Ruth Baker
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Applied mathematician and mathematical biologist
Known forPattern formation, morphogenesis, and the mathematical modeling of cell biology and developmental biology.

Ruth Elizabeth Baker is a British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford whose research interests include pattern formation, morphogenesis, and the mathematical modeling of cell biology and developmental biology.

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Education and career

Baker read mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford, [1] and earned a doctorate (D.Phil.) at the University of Oxford in 2005. Her dissertation, Periodic Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology: A Study of the Mechanisms Involved in Somite Formation, was jointly supervised by biologist Santiago Schnell and mathematician Philip Maini, who was also the doctoral supervisor of Schnell. [2]

After postdoctoral research in Germany, the US, and Australia, funded by a UK Research Council Junior Research Fellowship, she returned to a permanent position at Oxford. [1] She is a professor of applied mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford [3] and a tutorial fellow in mathematics in St Hugh's College, Oxford since 2010. [4]

Recognition

Baker was a 2014 winner of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society "for her outstanding contributions to the field of Mathematical Biology". [5] She was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her work in "efficient computational methods for testing biological hypotheses" in 2017. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Thompson, Robin (Spring 2018), "Research interview – Professor Ruth Baker", Society for Mathematical Biology Newsletter
  2. Ruth Baker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Prof. Ruth Baker, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford , retrieved 2020-03-15
  4. "Fellows and Lecturers" (PDF), Chronicle, St Hugh's College, Oxford, p. 60, October 2014 – September 2015
  5. 2014 LMS Prize Winners, London Mathematical Society , retrieved 2020-03-15
  6. Ruth Baker and Alex Scott awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowships, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, June 2017, retrieved 2020-03-15