Mathematics For Biosciences: From Theory To Worked Examples And Applications

Elspeth Garman is a Professor of Molecular Biophysics Emerita at Oxford University. She started her working life aged 18 as a volunteer teacher in Eswatini, Southern Africa. Following a degree in Physics at Durham University (UK), she research for a DPhil (PhD) in Experimental Nuclear Structure Physics at Oxford. After seven years in Nuclear Physics Research and being a Physics Tutor, she changed fields to protein crystallography. She taught the ‘Principles of Mathematics’ first-year undergraduate course to Oxford University Biochemistry students for over 25 years, as well as researching into improved methods for structural biology, particularly in unambiguously identifying metals in proteins using particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE), optimising crystal cryocooling and understanding radiation damage effects during X-ray diffraction experiments.

Nicola Laurieri graduated in Biochemical and Biotechnological Engineering (BSc and MSc) at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon (France). He was then awarded a PhD degree, funded by Cancer Research UK, at St. John’s College and in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Oxford (UK), where he has been an Academic Visitor since graduation. He has contributed to various research projects, publications, reviews, academic book chapters, and books in diverse Bioscience fields with different universities worldwide. He currently works as a scientific researcher and consultant in Italy at Item Oxygen, a highly innovative company developing high-technological and robotic biomedical devices in cooperation with ten Italian universities, with funding support awarded from the regional, national and European agencies.