David Rand

David Rand is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and a member of the Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (SBIDER). He previously served as Chair of the Mathematics Institute until 2005, held an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship (2005–2010), and directed the Warwick Systems Biology Centre (2005–2016). His research focuses on Systems Biology, particularly understanding design principles of cellular regulatory and signaling systems, while maintaining contributions to Dynamical Systems theory.

His work integrates mathematical modeling with experimental data to address questions in developmental biology, such as cell fate decisions during neural tube development and C. elegans vulval differentiation. He has developed innovative frameworks like Dynamic Landscape Analysis (DLA) and the TimeTeller algorithm for analyzing circadian clocks in health and disease. His recent projects include grants exploring dynamical landscapes in cell fate decisions and collaborations on circadian dysfunction in cancer prognosis.

Key contributions include linking circadian clock functionality to breast cancer survival rates, parameter sensitivity analysis in biochemical networks, and modeling transcriptional dynamics in living cells. Rand has supervised PhD student Vadim Vasilyev, who contributed to the TimeTeller project. He is also affiliated with interdisciplinary initiatives like the BBSRC-funded study on cell fate decision landscapes and the EPSRC grant on dynamical systems approaches in systems biology.