Professor Fordyce Davidson
Associate Vice-Principal (Innovation)
Executive, Academic and Corporate Governance
Contact
Biography
Fordyce Davidson is the Portfolio Associate Vice-Principle (Innovation) working across and beyond the institution to support translation of research and knowledge exchange. Previous to this appointment he was Deputy Dean (2020-23) then Dean (2023-26) of the School of Science and Engineering.
He is Professor of Mathematics and holds the Bell Burnell Chair.
Fordyce obtained a PhD in Mathematics from Heriot-Watt University in 1993. He took up a permanent position at the University of Dundee in 1997 and became Professor of Mathematics in 2015.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, is an Editor of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh A and is on the Editorial Boards of the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics and Fungal Ecology. He was a Berkeley Award winner and past Vice President of the British Mycological Society. In 2026 he was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts.
Research
His research interests spread across two complementary areas:
- The quantitative study of biological systems
- The analysis of differential equations models arising from biology
Most of his recent work has been aimed at developing a better understand of the collective behaviour of microbes, in particular the form and function of bacterial biofilms. In parallel he continues to work on understanding the solution structure of ordinary, partial and functional differential equations; in particular, reaction-diffusion-convection systems, arising from a variety of biological applications.
Stories
- Type
- News
Dundee partnership produces world-first accredited biomedical engineering programme
A University of Dundee programme has become the first of its kind to receive prestigious recognition from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
