Rate My Professor Mark Flegg

Dr Mark Flegg is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, at Monash University. He earned his PhD in mathematical modelling of aerosol physics, focusing on particle interactions, from Queensland University of Technology in 2010. After completing a brief postdoctoral position on modelling medical physics and clinical diagnostic mechanisms, he pursued further postdoctoral research at the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM) at the University of Oxford, UK. In 2014, Dr Flegg returned to Australia to take up a Lectureship in the Monash Academy for Cross and Interdisciplinary Mathematical Applications (MAXIMA), later promoted to Senior Lecturer.

His research interests encompass mathematical biology, cell biology, stochastic processes, particle simulation, ultrasound modelling in bone, developmental biology, and cancer biology. Key themes include patterning in unstable systems, reaction-diffusion processes, and multiscale modelling. Ongoing projects address mechanical properties of virtual tissues, microscopic-to-macroscopic reaction-diffusion transitions, non-autonomous Turing patterns, and models of colon crypts, kidneys, cell signalling, and wound healing. Notable publications include "Antibody Dynamics for Plasmodium vivax Malaria: A Mathematical Model" (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2021), "An Activation-Clearance Model for Plasmodium vivax Malaria" (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2020), "Delay-driven oscillations via Axin2 feedback in the Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway" (Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2020), "Smoluchowski reaction kinetics for reactions of any order", and "Multiscale stochastic reaction-diffusion modeling: application to actin dynamics in filopodia". His scholarly output has accumulated 738 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 13 and i10-index of 17. Additionally, Dr Flegg directs the Mathematics in Industry Study Group (MISG) 2025 at Monash University and has contributed to organizing prior events.