Desmond Higham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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British mathematician
Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1964
Place of Birth: Salford, England, United Kingdom
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Desmond Higham
- Desmond John Higham (born 17 February 1964 in Salford) is a numerical analyst and Professor of Numerical Analysis the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BSc in 1985, MSc in and 1986 and PhD 1988.
- He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto before taking up a Lectureship at the University of Dundee in 1990 and moving to a Readership at the University of Strathclyde in 1996.
- He was made Professor in 1999 and awarded the "1966 Chair of Numerical Analysis" in 2011.
- He moved to the University of Edinburgh in April 2019. Higham's main area of research is stochastic computation, with applications in computational biology, technological/sociological/security networks and mathematical finance. He held a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2012–2017) and is a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- He won the 2005 SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize (2005).
- He holds an Established Career Fellowship from the EPSRC/URKI Digital Economy programme and is institutional lead on the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Programme Grant Inference, Computation and Numerics for Insights into Cities (ICONIC).
- He is a member of Sub-panel 10, Mathematical Sciences, for the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). Higham has authored four books: Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems (2010, with D.
- F.
- Griffiths), An Introduction to Financial Option Valuation: Mathematics, Stochastics and Computation (2004), MATLAB Guide (with his brother Nicholas Higham, 3rd edition, 2017), Learning LaTeX (with D.
- F.
- Griffiths, 2nd edition 2016).He also edited the book Network Science: Complexity in Nature and Technology (2010, with Ernesto Estrada, Maria Fox and Gian-Luca Oppo).He is Editor-in-Chief of SIAM Review and is a member of the editorial boards of several other journals.
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