Erwin George

Dr Erwin George

Senior Lecturer

Erwin George is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. He completed his PhD in Computational Applied Mathematics under the supervision of Professor James Glimm at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) in 2003. He has subsequently worked as a Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at SUNY Stony Brook, a Research Fellow in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, and a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, before joining the University of Greenwich. His teaching has covered a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate level pure and applied mathematics, scientific computing, and probability and statistics, while his research has spanned the fields of fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, and mathematical and computational biology.

B.A. Honours (Mathematics), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

M.A. (Mathematics) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.

PhD (Computational Applied Mathematics) State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University), Stony Brook, NY, USA.

Mathematics

Responsibilities within the university

Course leader

  • Mathematics with Business, BSc Hons
  • Mathematics with Economics, BSc Hons
  • Mathematics, BSc Hons (Extended)
  • Computing and Information Systems, MSc
  • Computing and Information Systems (International Incorporated Masters – One Term) (UGIC), MSc
  • Computing and Information Systems (International Incorporated Masters – Two Term) (UGIC), MSc
  • Management of Business Information Technology, MSc
  • Management of Business Information Technology (International Incorporated Masters – One Term) (UGIC), MSc
  • Management of Business Information Technology (International Incorporated Masters – Two Term) (UGIC), MSc

Module leader

  • Databases and Data Infrastructure
  • Ethics and Governance
  • Group Project
  • Mathematics for the Life Sciences
  • Numerical Mathematics
  • Mathematics and Statistics for Data Science

Recognition

Fellow of the HEA (Higher Education Academy)

Member of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)

Member of the EMS (Edinburgh Mathematical Society)

Member of the AMS (American Mathematical Society)

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA). Profile

Research / Scholarly interests

Meshfree methods, mathematical and computational biology, numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

Programming: C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Java, Fortran, Unix/Linux shell scripting, MPI.

Recent publications

Article

Olawale, Lukman , Gao, Tao, George, Erwin, Lai, Choi-Hong (2023), Response of an Euler-Bernoulli beam subject to a stochastic disturbance. Springer. In: , , , . Springer, Engineering with Computers, 39 (6) . pp. 4185-4197 ISSN: 0177-0667 (Print), 1435-5663 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-023-01917-5).

Le Feunteun, Steven , Al-Razaz, Ahmed, Dekker, Matthijs, George, Erwin , Laroche, Beatrice , van Aken, George (2021), Physiologically based modeling of food digestion and intestinal microbiota: state of the art and future challenges. An INFOGEST Review. Annual Reviews. In: , , , . Annual Reviews, Annual Review of Food Science and Technology, 12 (1) . pp. 149-167 ISSN: 1941-1413 (Print), 1941-1421 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-food-070620-124140).

Natkunam, Kokulan , Hai, Yang, Lai, Choi-Hong, George, Erwin , Liu, Li (2019), Simultaneous estimation of tracer kinetic model parameters using analytical and inverse approaches with a hybrid method. Taylor & Francis. In: , , , . Taylor & Francis, International Journal of Computer Mathematics ISSN: 0020-7160 (Print), 1029-0265 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207160.2018.1562175).

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