Curriculum Vitae

John Billingham

Education

St. John’s College, University of Cambridge 1984 – 1987 

B.A. Hons, Mathematics, First Class 

University of East Anglia 1987 – 1990 

M.Sc., Theoretical Mechanics 

Dissertation: `Oscillations and Wave Propagation in a Simple Isothermal, Model, Chemical Reaction Scheme’. 

Ph.D.

Thesis: `Travelling Waves and Clock Reactions in Quadratic and Cubic Autocatalysis’.

Employment History

Schlumberger Cambridge Research. 1990 – 1995

Associate Research Scientist 1990 – 1992

Research Scientist 1992 – 1995

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Birmingham

Lecturer 1995 – 2000

Reader 2000 – 2003

E.P.S.R.C. Advanced Research Fellow 2000 – 2005

School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham

Professor of Theoretical Mechanics 2003 – 2024

Director of Undergraduate Recruitment 2005 – 2007

Head of the Division of Applied Mathematics 2007 – 2011

Director of Teaching and Learning 2011 – 2013

Head of  Research Group (Industrial and Applied Mathematics) 2013 – 2019

Careers Officer 2019 – 2020

Director of Teaching and Learning 2020 – 2023

Emeritus Professor 2024 –