David Wallace

Early life and education Wallace was born on 7 October 1945. He was educated at Hawick High School

Career After postdoctoral research work as a Harkness Fellow at Princeton University, Wallace became a physics lecturer at the University of Southampton in 1972.

In 1979 he became the fourth Tait Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, succeeding Nicholas Kemmer. He won the James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize in 1980. He became director of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) and in 1996 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his computing work. He was formerly vice-president and treasurer of the Royal Society and chair of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences. From 1994 to January 2006 he was the vice-chancellor of Loughborough University. From 2006 to 2011 he served as director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Wallace has also been president of the Institute of Physics and Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)

Personal life Wallace married Elizabeth Yeats in 1970 and has a daughter, Sara.