Professor Dave Smith is an applied mathematician who works across the interfaces of biomedical research and modelling. Following a PhD with Professors John Blake and Eamonn Gaffney, he undertook postdoctoral research on male fertility diagnostics in collaboration with Birmingham Women’s Hospital Centre for Human Reproductive Science. His main interests are very low Reynolds number biological fluid dynamics, and he has co-authored Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics articles on Mammalian Sperm Motility, and Left-Right Symmetry Breaking Flows in Embryogenesis; in addition he has worked with teams researching topics as diverse as steroid metabolome cancer diagnosis, the molecular and physical pathogenesis of lung disease, and synthetic biology techniques for flow and pathogen detection. He and his multidisciplinary research group develop and apply tools based on regularized singularity solutions, the finite element method, and model-based image analysis. He is currently Professor and Director of Research in the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham.

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