John R. Terry

John R. Terry is a British mathematician, currently Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow at the University of Birmingham,[1] where he is Director of the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine.[2] He is also Director of the EPSRC Centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare, a £2M initiative funded by the EPSRC.[3] He is well known for the development and application of mathematical techniques in biology and medicine, notably epilepsy and neuroendocrinology. He is a member of the ILAE task force on Network Diseases,[4] as well as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Epilepsy Research UK.[5] According to Gateway to Research he has received nearly £10M in research funding,[6] a substantial amount for a mathematician. His research has been recognized internationally, most recently by the University of Melbourne through a Miegunyah Fellowship.[7]

Career

Terry was an undergraduate at the University of Reading before taking a PhD at the University of Surrey. He has held academic positions at Loughborough University, the University of Bristol, the University of Sheffield and the University of Exeter, before joining the University of Birmingham in 2012. During his time at the University of Exeter he established the Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis,[8] of which he was co-director,[9] supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Scientific contributions

As a graduate student, Terry focused on synchronization problems in solid state laser systems,[10] before moving into neuroscience during his postdoctoral career. He is most well known for his work in describing the mechanisms of seizures and susceptibility to epilepsy,[11] utilising mathematical models for the first time in the context of diagnosis[12] and surgery.[13] He is also highly cited in the field of neuroendocrinology, where along with Stafford Lightman he has described the pituitary-adrenal interplay responsible for hourly rhythms in the stress responsive hormone cortisol.[14]

References
  1. "Prof John Terry | Mathematics | University of Birmingham".
  2. "Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine".
  3. "£10 million for new maths centres to tackle life-threatening diseases - EPSRC website".
  4. "Commission on Neurobiology // International League Against Epilepsy".
  5. "Research strategy - ERUK website".
  6. http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/1B6977A6-50FA-4AAC-B870-E3346E865233
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "University of Exeter".
  9. http://www.exeter.ac.uk/cbma/team
  10. Terry, J. R., Thornburg Jr, K. S., DeShazer, D. J., VanWiggeren, G. D., Zhu, S., Ashwin, P. and Roy, R. (1999). "Synchronization of chaos in an array of three lasers" (PDF). Phys. Rev. E. 59 (4): 4036–4043. Bibcode:1999PhRvE..59.4036T. doi:10.1103/physreve.59.4036.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  11. Terry, J. R., Benjamin O. and Richardson, M. P. (2012). "Seizure generation: The role of nodes and networks". Epilepsia. 53 (9): e166–e169. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03560.x. PMID 22709380.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  12. Schmidt, H., Woldman, W., Goodfellow, M., Chowdhury, F. A., Koutroumanidis, M., Jewell, S., Richardson, M. P. and Terry, J. R. (2016). "A computational biomarker of idiopathic generalized epilepsy from resting state EEG". Epilepsia. 57 (10): e200–e204. doi:10.1111/epi.13481. PMID 27501083.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  13. Goodfellow, M., Rummel, C., Abela, E., Richardson, M. P., Schindler, K. and Terry, J. R. (2016). "Estimation of brain network ictogenicity predicts outcome from epilepsy surgery". Scientific Reports. 6: 29215. Bibcode:2016NatSR...629215G. doi:10.1038/srep29215. PMID 27384316.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  14. Walker J. J., Terry J. R. and Lightman S. L. (2010). "The origin of pulsatility in the HPA-axis". Proc. R. Soc. B. 277 (1688): 1627–1633. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.2148. PMC 2871854. PMID 20129987.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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