Professor Paul Watton
BSc, MSc, PhD
School of Computer Science
Professor of Computational & Theoretical Modelling
Head of the Complex Systems Modelling research group
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- Profile
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Paul Watton has a first degree in Pure & Applied Mathematics from the University of Newcastle, an MSc in Mathematical Logic and the Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Manchester, and a PHD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leeds. Following his PhD he had postdoctoral positions at the University of Glasgow (2003-2006) and the University of Oxford (2006-2013).
The main focus of his research is developing theoretical/computational models for the biomechanics and mechanobiology of soft biological tissues with application to homeostasis, ageing and disease.
Paul was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science in 2013, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017 and Professor of Computational and Theoretical Modelling in 2024. He also holds an adjunct professorship with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh.
- Research interests
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Mathematical and computational biomechanics and mechanobiology; constitutive modelling of soft biological tissues; theoretical and computational analyses of growth and remodeling; cardiovascular mechanics; arterial mechanics; biofluid mechanics; continuum mechanics; vascular mechanobiology; aneurysms; bladder biomechanics and mechanobiology.
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Grants
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Current grants
- BOOM: A Digital Twin for Designing Bladder Treatment Informed By Bladder Outlet Obstruction Mechanobiology, NIH, 08/2023 - 08/2028, £408,226, as PI
- Capacity Building and Computing Technologies for Healthcare: An Application in Transforming Mental Health Research and Services in Vietnam, Academy of Medical Sciences, 03/2024 - 03/2025, £45,431. as Co-I.
- Modelling Cartilage Chemo-Mechanobiology with Application to Predicting Osteoarthritis Progression and Treatment, Royal Society, 03.2024 - 03.2026, £12,000, as PI
- The SofTMech Statistical Emulation and Translation Hub, EPSRC, 03/2021 - 02/2025, £207,617, as Co-PI
- SANO: Centre for New Methods in Computational Diagnostics and Personalised Therapy, EC H2020, 08/2019 - 07/2026, £2,497,386, as Co-PI
Previous grants
- EPSRC Centre for Multiscale soft tissue mechanics with application to heart & cancer, EPSRC, 04/2016 to 03/2020, £131,726, as PI
- Development of a novel diagnostic model of urinary dysfunction, ºù«Ӱҵ Hospitals Charitable Trust, 03/2014 to 08/2014, £15,715, as PI
- Integrative In vitro and In silico Modelling of Arterial Mechanobiology for Health and Disease, The British Council, 03/2014 to 08/2016, £30,720, as PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Watton PN (with Robertson A) Organiser for Mini-Symposium on Modelling and Simulation of Aneurysms, European Solid Mechanics Conference, Madrid, Spain, July 6-10, 2015.
- Watton PN (with Cebral J & Meng H & Raghavan M & Robertson A & Steinmann D ) Organiser for Mini-Symposium on Intracranial Aneurysms, 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, Boston, USA, July 6-11, 2014.
- Watton PN (with Cebral J & Robertson A) Organiser for Mini-Symposium Aneurysm Modelling: from basic science to clinical translation, 3rd International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, Hong Kong, Dec 16-18, 2013.
- Watton PN (with Robertson A) Organiser for Mini-Symposium on Modelling and Simulation of Aneurysms, European Solid Mechanics Conference, Graz University of Technology, Austria, July 9-13, 2012.