Summer School on Mathematics in Biology in Medicine

September 20-24, 2004

Lee Segel

The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Biography

Lee Segel is one of the founding fathers of mathematical biology.
He got his Ph.D from MIT in 1959. From 1960 to 1973 he was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY). More recently he was Professor and Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institut Rehovot Israel. In between, numerous institutions around the world had the previledge to have him has a visitor or faculty namely Cornell University, the Sloan-Kattering Institute, Harvard University, Princeton University, the NIH, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Utrecht, the Pasteur Institute, or the Indian Institute of Science.
Lee Segel is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Israel Mathematics Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Society for Mathematical Biology. He is, or has been, on the editorial board of many journals namely Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine and Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, and Bulletin of Mathematical Biology to which he served has Editor-in-Chief.
Lee Segel has written up to 170 articles, and 7 books, contributing to the mathematical basis of fluid mechanics, pattern formation, ecology, biochemical kinetics, chemotaxis, sensory responses, developmental biology, neurobiology, and, more recently, immunology. His name is associated to the "Newell-Whitehead-Segel equation", and a whole research field was originated by his seminal article on aggregation of slime mold amoebae in 1970 in Nature.