Professor Ben MacArthur

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Position

Programme Lead for Turing-Roche Partnership

Former position

Turing Fellow

Partner Institution

Bio

Ben MacArthur is professor of quantitative biomedicine at the University of Southampton. In accordance with his interdisiplinary research interests he holds a joint between the Faculty of Medicine and Mathematical Sciences. At the Turing he is Programme Director for the Turing-Roche Partnership.

He obtained a PhD in applied mathematics (Southampton, 2003) before training in experimental cell biology, first in the Faculty of Medicine at Southampton (2003-2008) and then at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA (2008-2010).

He is a visiting professor at the International Research Centre for Medical Sciences at Kumamoto University, Japan.

Research interests

Ben's work combines mathematical modelling and experiment to better understand cell dynamics, health, and disease. He uses mathematical modelling and machine learning methods to analyse complex biomedical datasets, particularly arising from cell and molecular biology experiments. He is also interested in the structure and function of complex networks.  His work often combines machine learning with mechanistic mathematical modelling to better understand the causes of any observed patterns.