Education
He gained his Doctor of Philosophy from King"s College, Cambridge in 1985 with a thesis entitled Homoclinic Bifurcations under the supervision of Nigel Weiss.
He gained his Doctor of Philosophy from King"s College, Cambridge in 1985 with a thesis entitled Homoclinic Bifurcations under the supervision of Nigel Weiss.
His main areas of research are bifurcation theory (particularly global bifurcations). Synchronization and blowout bifurcations. Low-dimensional maps.
And quasi-periodically forced systems
After postdoctoral research at the University of Warwick, he returned to Cambridge, with a Junior Research Fellowship at King"son In 1987 he moved to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as Director of Studies in Applied Mathematics.
In 1996 he was appointed to a chair at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London and then to a chair at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) in 2000. In 2004 the Victoria University of Manchester and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology merged and he was appointed as head of the School of Mathematics formed by the merger of the Mathematics Departments in the former institutions.
His term of office as head of school expired in August 2008.
He is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics and the journal Dynamical Systems.
