Duncan Lawson

Duncan Austin Lawson MBE is a British mathematician. He is professor and associate dean of the faculty of science and engineering at Coventry University and director of the Maths, Stats & OR Network of the Higher Education Academy. He is also chair of the executive group of the More maths grads project.

Duncan Lawson

MBE
Born
Duncan Austin Lawson
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Employer
Websitewww.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-people/duncan-lawson/

He obtained a BA and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, then worked for British Gas plc before moving to Coventry University in 1987. His research interests are in efficient computational methods for the calculation of thermal radiative heat transfer.

For five years he was pro-vice-chancellor of formative education at Newman University in Birmingham, before returning to Coventry.[1]

He received the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications' Gold Medal in 2016.[1]

Lawson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to mathematics in higher education.[2]

Footnotes
  1. "Mathematics support adds up to an MBE for leading academic". Newman University. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B19.
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