Professor Karen Page

Karen Page is a Professor of Mathematical Biology at UCL. She studied at Queens’ College, Cambridge (MA 1st class, MMath Distinction, 1992-1996). Her DPhil, on the topic of patterning in embryology, was completed in Oxford in 1999. She then went to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as a postdoctoral fellow. There she studied evolutionary game theory and evolutionary dynamics. She joined the Department of Computer Science at UCL in 2001 as a Lecturer in Bioinformatics and subsequently moved to the Department of Mathematics in 2006. She was promoted to Reader in 2010 and Professor in 2015. During her time at UCL, she has worked on applying mathematical models to a variety of areas of biology, and is particularly interested in developmental biology, evolution and cancer.