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Honorary Fellowship: David Abrahams

Professor David Abrahams has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship in the College of Science & Engineering.

Professor David Abrahams

He has held the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester since 1998.

Research

Professor Abrahams is an applied mathematician specialising in the modelling, analysis and application of waves. He works with industrial partners including AWE, Thales UK and Dyson.

He has made contributions to the fields of underwater and aero acoustics, water waves, elasticity, electromagnetics and non-destructive evaluation.

Over the last ten years, his research group has been concerned with wave propagation through materials containing complex microstructure, including biological tissues, with the aim of obtaining effective or averaged properties.

Biography

Professor Abrahams was educated at Imperial College London and worked at Newcastle and Keele universities before joining the University of Manchester.

He plays an active role in the international mathematics community and has served on more than 30 national and international panels over the last ten years.

He was President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Application, 2007-09, reviewed submissions to both the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 and Research Excellence Framework 2014, and was Chair of EPSRC’s Mathematical Sciences strategic advisory team, 2014-15.

Professor Abrahams holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2013-18, and recently became Scientific Director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.