Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher FHEA

Meurig Gallagher

Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research
SMQB Centre Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2916
Email
m.t.gallagher@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@MeurigGallagher
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Address
Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Meurig Gallagher is an applied mathematician and Centre Fellow at the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine. Meurig’s research concerns how mathematical modelling can be used to extract informative and accurate information from biomedical and clinical imaging data sets. He is particularly interested in creating tools for researchers and clinicians to use, and has released the software packages FAST – the world’s first fully automated system for high-throughput tracking of sperm flagella (www.flagellarcapture.com) and NEAREST – a meshfree, regularised stokeslet code to solve Stokes flow problems in MATLAB (www.gitlab.com/MeurigGallagher/NEAREST).

Meurig spends a lot of time thinking about how the application of fluid dynamic modelling can help tackle problems in male fertility, a global problem that can have a direct impact on the quality of life for people everywhere. In 2018 Meurig was awarded the Iwan Lewis Jones Young Scientist prize (British Andrology Society) for his work developing FAST.

Part of the Centre for Systems, Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine

Centre Twitter handle - https://twitter.com/SMQB_UoB

 

Qualifications

Centre Fellow, CSMQB:

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 2018,
  • PhD in Applied Mathematics 2015,
  • MMath in Applied Mathematics 2011.

Teaching

Meurig does not currently have any teaching responsibilities but has previously taught mathematics modules in Differential Equations, Perturbation Theory and Asymptotics, and Research Skills in Mathematics, as well as supervising undergraduate Master’s projects in topics such as:

  • The use of bacteriophage as a shear stress sensor
  • Modelling of microvascular anastomoses
  • Stability of non-Newtonian fluids

Other activities

  • Meurig is a Member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
  • Meurig is passionate about the dissemination of his work, and was lucky enough to be a finalist in the STEM4Britain 2018 competition
  • Meurig has led the image-analysis portion of a team who designed and installed the MICROBOTS: The future of Healthcare exhibit at the ThinkTank science museum in Birmingham, come have a visit, you’ll find us in the Futures Gallery!

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Neal, C, Hall-McNair, A, Kirkman-Brown, J, Smith, D & Gallagher, MT 2020, 'Doing more with less: the flagellar end piece enhances the propulsive effectiveness of spermatozoa', Physical Review Fluids, vol. 5, no. 7, 073101 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.073101

Gallagher, MT & Smith, D 2020, 'Passively parallel regularized stokeslets', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 378, no. 2179, 20190528. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0528

Gallagher, MT, Montenegro-Johnson, T & Smith, D 2020, 'Simulations of particle tracking in the oligociliated mouse node and implications for left-right symmetry breaking mechanics', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, vol. 375, no. 1792, 20190161. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0161

Hall-McNair, A, Montenegro-Johnson, T, Gadêlha, H, Smith, D & Gallagher, MT 2019, 'Efficient implementation of elastohydrodynamics via integral operators', Physical Review Fluids, vol. 4, no. 11, 113101, pp. 113101-1 - 113101-24. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.113101

Gallagher, MT, Wain, R, Dari, S, Whitty, J & Smith, D 2019, 'Non-identifiability of parameters for a class of shear-thinning rheological models, with implications for haematological fluid dynamics', Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 85, pp. 230-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.01.036

Gallagher, MT, Cupples, G, Ooi, EH, Kirkman-Brown, J & Smith, D 2019, 'Rapid sperm capture: High-throughput flagellar waveform analysis', Human Reproduction, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 1173–1185. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dez056

Gallagher, MT, Choudhuri, D & Smith, D 2019, 'Sharp quadrature error bounds for the nearest-neighbor discretization of the regularized stokeslet boundary integral equation', SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. B139–B152. https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1191816

Kavanagh, D, Gallagher, MT & Kalia, N 2019, 'Tify: a quality-based frame selection tool for improving the output of unstable biomedical imaging', PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 3, e0213162. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213162

Gallagher, MT & Smith, D 2018, 'Meshfree and efficient modelling of swimming cells', Physical Review Fluids, vol. 3, no. 5, 053101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.053101

Gallagher, MT, Needham, D & Billingham, J 2018, 'The initial development of a jet caused by fluid, body and free surface interaction with a uniformly accelerated advancing or retreating plate. Part 1. The principal flow', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 841, pp. 109-145. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.4

Gallagher, MT, Needham, D & Billingham, J 2018, 'The initial development of a jet caused by fluid, body and free surface interaction with a uniformly accelerated advancing or retreating plate. Part 2. Well-posedness and stability of the principal flow', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 841, pp. 146-166. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.5

Gallagher, MT, Neal, C, Arkill, K & Smith, D 2017, 'Model-based image analysis of a tethered Brownian fibre for shear stress sensing', Journal of The Royal Society Interface, vol. 14, no. 137, 20170564. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0564

Gallagher, M, Griffiths, P & Stephen, S 2016, 'The effect of non-Newtonian viscosity on the stability of the Blasius boundary layer', Physics of Fluids, vol. 28, no. 7. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4958970

Review article

Gallagher, MT, Smith, D & Kirkman-Brown, J 2018, 'CASA: tracking the past and plotting the future', Reproduction Fertility and Development, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 867-874. https://doi.org/10.1071/RD17420

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