Education
He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his Bachelor of Science in 1985, Master of Science in and 1986 and Doctor of Philosophy 1988.
He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his Bachelor of Science in 1985, Master of Science in and 1986 and Doctor of Philosophy 1988.
He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto before taking up a Lectureship at the University of Dundee in 1990 and moving to a Readership at the University of Strathclyde in 1996. Higham"s main area of research is stochastic computation, with applications in computational biology, technological/sociological/security networks and mathematical finance. He holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012–2017) and is a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Higham has authored four books:
Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems (2010, with Doctorate F Griffiths),
An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation (2004),
Learning LaTeX (1997, with Doctorate F Griffiths).
He also edited the book
Network Science: Complexity in Nature and Technology (2010, with Ernesto Estrada, Maria Fox and Gian-Luca Oppo).
He is Section Editor of the Survey and Review section of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Review and is a member of the editorial boards of several other journals.