Professor Chris Gilligan

Epidemiologist and modeler, with an interest in crop disease and biological control, including human and animal disease.

Research Summary

The Epidemiology and Modelling Group comprises experimenters and theorists representing mathematics, physics and biology, working on invasion, persistence, scale and variability in epidemics and other invading organisms on human and animal health as well as plant disease. The main focus of research is on botanical epidemics in agricultural, plantation and semi-natural systems.

Research Groups

Epidemiology Group

Selected Biography

1999 - present Professor of Mathematical Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
1995 - 1999 Reader in Mathematical Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Other Professional Activities

University of Cambridge Research Policy Committee, 2003 - 2006
BBSRC Chairman, Review of Crop Science Research, 2003 - 2004
BBSRC Council, 2003 - 2006

Keywords

epidemiology, epidemic, crop disease, plant disease, modelling, agriculture, biological control

Professor Chris Gilligan

Department of Plant Sciences
University of Cambridge
Downing Site
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3EA

chris.gilligan@plantsci.cam.ac.uk

Available for consultancy: No