“Tissue dynamics arising from cell interactions – data-driven mathematical modelling approaches in development and regeneration”

Linus Schumacher obtained his DPhil at the University of Oxford, at the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, after which he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and the Imperial College London. In 2018 he started his own research group as a Chancellor’s Fellow at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh. Research in the Schumacher group aims to understand development and regeneration by studying the interactions between stem cells and the rest of the cells that make up a tissue. They use mathematical models and computational simulations to predict tissue behaviour from the behaviour of cells. This allows to develop and test hypotheses in complex biological systems and discern informative patterns in experimental data.