Brief CV

Matthew James Keeling

Born: 21 / 06 / 1970
Nationality: British

Education and Career

Jan 2002 - Lectureship, University of Warwick. Held jointly between the Mathematics Institute and the Department of Biological Sciences.

Oct 1998- Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Initially held at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, later transferred to University of Warwick. In 2000 I was granted a Merit Award by the Royal Society.

Oct 1998-Jan 2002 Research Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Member of the Spatially Extended Dynamics Group, part of the Kings College Research Centre.

Oct 1995-Oct 1998 Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Training Fellowship in Mathematical Biology. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, working with Dr. B.T. Grenfell.

Oct 1992-Oct 1995 PhD in "The Ecology and Evolution of Spatial Host Parasite Systems", Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick. Supervisor Prof. D.A. Rand.

Oct 1991-Jun 1992 Certificate of Advanced Mathematics (Part III). Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. University of Cambridge.

Oct 1988-Jun 1991 First class honours degree in Mathematics. University of Cambridge (Trinity College).

Teaching and Conferences
1998-2001. In October 1998 I started a sixteen lecture course in Mathematical Biology (later to be called Population Dynamics) given to Part III mathematics students. This proved a very popular course, and has lead to several students taking up PhD positions in mathematical biology. I have given the course for four years, and it now forms an important and integral part of the dynamical systems section of the Part III syllabus.

I have given numerous presentations within my host universities, as well as other universities in the UK. Most recently I have given lectures at Bristol, Imperial College, Oxford and Stirling. In 1999 I organised a TUXEDO (The UK Spatially Extended Dynamics Organisation) meeting in Cambridge.I have been invited to speak at both national and international conferences, in recent years I have spoken at the Issac Newton Institute, the British Ecological Society, the American Ecological Society, an IMA meeting in Minneapolis and a comparative medicine meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine.

I feel strongly that the use of mathematics in biological sciences and epidemiology in particular should be comunicated to as wide an audience as possible. For this reason I was delighted to be asked to write an article for PLUS (on online maths magasine aimed at sixth formers) explaining the role of mathematics in epidemiological modelling. I have also adviced television production compancies working on scientific series for the BBC.

Committees, Awards, etc.
2001-2004. Member of the organising committee for a working group "Spatio-Temporal and Network Modeling of Disease", part of a DIMACS special focus into "Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology".
2001. Member of the scientific advisory group on foot-and-mouth.
2000 Granted a Merit Award by the Royal Society.

Grants and Students, etc.
2001-2003. BBSRC funded Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Dr. Jon Read). This grant was given to study "Evolution in spatial systems: the long term changes in disease behaviour" (£118,624).

2001-2003. MRC funded PhD student (Ken Eames), studying the effects of network structure on the spread of STDs.

2002-2005. Mentor for Azra Ghani, a Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow at Imperial College.

Jan 2002 -	Lectureship, University of Warwick. Held jointly between the Mathematics Institute and the Department of Biological Sciences.
Oct 1998-	Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Initially held at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, later transferred to University of Warwick. In 2000 I was granted a Merit Award by the Royal Society.
Oct 1998-Jan 2002	Research Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Member of the Spatially Extended Dynamics Group, part of the Kings College Research Centre.
Oct 1995-Oct 1998	Wellcome Trust Post-Doctoral Research Training Fellowship in Mathematical Biology. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, working with Dr. B.T. Grenfell.
Oct 1992-Oct 1995	PhD in "The Ecology and Evolution of Spatial Host Parasite Systems", Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick. Supervisor Prof. D.A. Rand.
Oct 1991-Jun 1992	Certificate of Advanced Mathematics (Part III). Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. University of Cambridge.
Oct 1988-Jun 1991	First class honours degree in Mathematics. University of Cambridge (Trinity College).