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Biography
Rebecca Bryony Hoyle is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Southampton, and associate dean for research at Southampton. She was the London Mathematical Society Mary Cartwright Lecturer for 2017.
Research
Hoyle's research has touched on diverse topics in applied mathematics ranging from evolutionary biology to dynamic network analysis and industrial ecology.
In 2003, a formula derived by Hoyle to explain the mathematics of parallel parking was widely reported in the popular media, but became somewhat mangled in the process.
She is the author of the book Pattern Formation: An Introduction to Methods (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Education and career
Hoyle read mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1989, took the Mathematical Tripos in 1990, and completed her Ph.D. in 1994. Her dissertation, Instabilities of Three Dimensional Patterns, was supervised by Michael Proctor.
After postdoctoral study at Northwestern University she returned to Cambridge as a research and teaching fellow, but after a brief stint at McKinsey & Company she moved to the University of Surrey in 2000. She moved again to Southampton in 2016.