Christopher Aidan Gilligan

Christopher Aidan Gilligan CBE, Sc.D. (born 9 January 1953) is Director of Research,  Professor of Mathematical Biology and is Head of the Epidemiology and Modelling Group in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He was Head of the School of Biological Sciences at Cambridge from 2009 until 2013 and is a Fellow of King's College. He is currently a Trustee of the James Hutton Institute and is the King's Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Gilligan is best known for designing and testing theoretical frameworks to explain and predict the dynamics of epidemics in crops and natural environments at a range of scales up to country-wide and continental. The models provide real-time guidance for emerging epidemics in more than fourteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the UK, US, Australia, Nepal and Bangladesh. Provided by Wikipedia