Mark Chaplain

Education Chaplain obtained a BSc with 1st-class honours in Applied Mathematics in 1986 from the University of Dundee. In 1990, also at the University of Dundee, he was awarded a PhD for the thesis "Mathematical Models for the Growth of Solid Tumours and the Tip Morphogenesis in Acetabularia" supervised by Brian D. Sleeman.

Research and career Following his PhD in 1990, Chaplain worked at the University of Bath until 1996. He serves on the editorial boards of many other scientific journals.

Awards and honours Chaplain was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003 The impact of his work in his and neighbouring research fields, as well as an indication of potential wider societal impact, can be read from the official citation of that award:

Chaplain has served on the board of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB) and of the Society for Mathematical Biology, of which he was president 2005–2007. He was president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society (EMS) from 2011 to 2013.

Chaplain was awarded the Lee Segel Best Paper Prize in 2015 and in 2023 for the best paper appearing (in the previous two years) in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2026.