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Joe Pitt-Francis is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. Since 1999 he has tutored Oxford computer-science students and formally became a Tutorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall in 2024.
His research lies at the intersection of computational biology and mathematical biology. Using sophisticated numerical techniques he constructs and analyses models of the heart, cancer and blood flow. A central strand of his work is software development for biological simulation; he is an active contributor to Chaste (Cancer, Heart and Soft-Tissue Environment), a large-scale C++ library that supports multiscale computational models in physiology and medicine.
Across more than 60 peer-reviewed publications since 1998, his work has progressively advanced from foundational software-engineering papers describing Chaste’s architecture to highly-cited studies on cardiac electrophysiology, tumour-induced angiogenesis, microvascular haemodynamics and cell-cycle dynamics under hypoxia. The 2024-2025 corpus shows strong emphasis on multiscale frameworks, open benchmarking, and radiotherapy-induced vascular remodelling, positioning his group at the forefront of translational in-silico oncology.
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