Philip Maini

Personal life Philip Maini is the son of father Panna Lal Maini and mother Satya Wati Bhandari. Panna Lal and Satya Wati were from Punjab, India. Panna Lal traveled to Northern Ireland in 1954. He had sailed to London on the ship RMS Maloja of the Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company arriving there on 18 February 1954. Satya Wati and Philip's elder brother Arvind did not arrive in Northern Ireland until 1957.

Education Maini was educated at Rainey Endowed School

Research and career After a postdoctoral research position at Oxford and an associate professorship at the University of Utah, he returned to Oxford in 1990 as university lecturer in mathematical biology with a tutorial fellowship at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Maini's research includes mathematical modelling of tumours, wound healing and embryonic pattern formation, and the theoretical analysis of these models. His research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). He has supervised 53 PhD students.

From 2002 to 2015 Maini was the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology and has served on the editorial boards of many other journals.

Awards and honours Maini was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

Maini was an elected member of the boards of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the Royal Society of Biology, and is a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has held visiting positions at universities worldwide. and the next year elected a Foreign Fellow by the Indian National Science Academy. In 2021, he was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Maini co-authored a 1997 Bellman Prize-winning paper and received a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship and Wolfson Research Merit Award, and the London Mathematical Society Naylor Prize.