ProfessorColin Cotter

My research in numerical analysis and scientific computing focusses on the design, analysis and implementation of numerical methods for weather forecasting, ocean modelling and climate simulation. Recently, I have been developing compatible finite element methods and time parallel algorithms for these and other applications. I am motivated by the geometric variational structure of fluid equations, which are also relevant for algorithms for exploring the geometric structure of shapes and images. I also develop numerical algorithms for probabilistic forecasting and data assimilation, and am currently developing particle filters for stochastic partial differential equations.

I am:

• Head of the Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics Section.
• Associate Editor for SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing and Foundations of Data Science.
• A member of the EPSRC peer review college.
• Author of a book with Sebastian Reich, entitled "Probabilistic Forecasting and Bayesian Data Assimilation".

See my research page for the list of current and past PhD and postdoctoral researchers.

Biography

• Professor of Computational Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, July 2019 - date
• Reader in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, July 2016 - July 2019
• Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, November 2013 to July 2016
• Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London 2010-2013
• Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London 2006-2010
• Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London 2005-2006
• Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London 2004-2005
• PhD Mathematics, Imperial College London 2000-2004
• Part III, Mathematics, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University 1999-2000
• BA Mathematics, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University 1996-1999