David Smith

Colleges, School and Institutes

Willingness to take PhD students

Yes

PhD projects

David Smith is a keen multidisciplinary collaborator and works with scientists and medics in areas ranging from male fertility to endocrine disorders. His research interests include:

Micro-fluid dynamics of fertility and reproduction, including sperm motility and embryonic nodal cilia
Mathematical endocrinology, including pharmacokinetics of cortisol; thyroid disease
Applications of mathematics in medicine

Dave currently supervises a postdoctoral fellow and two PhD students working on computational modelling of sperm motility, one student working on mathematical modelling in endocrinology, and also co-supervises a student in mathematical chemistry. Potential PhD students are warmly encouraged to get in touch.

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Most downloaded publications

Human sperm accumulation near surfaces: a simulation study

David Smith, Eamonn Gaffney, John Blake & , 1 Feb 2009, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 621, p. 289-320 32 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

439 downloads

Mathematical modelling of the vitamin C clock reaction

William Thomson & David Smith, 3 Apr 2019, In: Royal Society Open Science. 6, 4, 12 p., 181367.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

327 downloads

Rapid optofluidic detection of biomarkers for traumatic brain injury via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Jonathan Rickard, Valentina Di Pietro, David Smith, David Davies, Tony Belli & Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer, Jun 2020, In: Nature Biomedical Engineering. 4, 6, p. 610-623 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

196 downloads

CASA: tracking the past and plotting the future

Meurig Thomas Gallagher, David Smith & Jackson Kirkman-Brown, 29 May 2018, In: Reproduction Fertility and Development. 30, 6, p. 867-874 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

149 downloads

Simultaneous parameter estimation and variable selection via the logit-normal continuous analogue of the spike-and-slab prior

Sara Jabbari, Angela Taylor, Wiebke Arlt & David Smith, 31 Jan 2019, In: Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 16, 150, p. 20180572 20180572.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

133 downloads

Recent publications

Heads and tails: requirements for informative and robust computational measures of sperm motility

Gemma Cupples, Meurig Thomas Gallagher, David Smith & Jackson Kirkman-Brown, 23 Jul 2021, XIIIth International Symposium on Spermatology. Björndahl, L., Flanagan, J., Holmberg, R. & Kvist, U. (eds.). Springer, Cham, p. 135-150

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

The art of coarse Stokes: Richardson extrapolation improves the accuracy and efficiency of the method of regularized stokeslets

Meurig Thomas Gallagher & David Smith, 26 May 2021, In: Royal Society Open Science. 8, 5, 210108.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Passively parallel regularized stokeslets

Meurig Thomas Gallagher & David Smith, 4 Sep 2020, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 378, 2179, 18 p., 20190528.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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