| Professor Emeritus Michael John MaherProfessor of Mathematical Analysis of Transport Systems |
Mike Maher currently has a part-time (purely research) post as Professor of the Mathematical Analysis of Transport Systems at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. His research is generally in the mathematical and statistical modelling of transport problems, especially in the areas of network modelling (for example, stochastic methods for traffic assignment), optimisation and traffic safety modelling (for example, predictive accident modelling, regression to the mean and accident migration). He has held numerous EPSRC research grants, and been involved in several EU-funded projects
Born and brought up in St. Helens on Merseyside, he attended West Part Grammar School, before going on to St. John’s College, Cambridge University in 1963, from where he graduated with a BA (first class) in Mechanical Sciences and a PhD in Operations Research. He held posts in the Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds University, and then the Department of Probability & Statistics at Sheffield University, before joining the Transport Research Laboratory in 1987. In 1994, he moved to Edinburgh Napier University, where he was Professor of Transport Engineering and Director of Research in the School of the Built Environment and (briefly) Head of School, and played a significant role in the development of the TRI. He retired from Edinburgh Napier in early 2007 and took up his current post at Leeds University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics & its Applications and of the Transport Research Foundation, a Chartered Statistician, and a member of the EPSRC Engineering college. He is the author of over 100 papers, and is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the international journal Transportation Research B.
He is married to Christiane Bielefeldt, and has three sons. Away from transport, he is interested in various forms of sport, including watching as much football on TV as he can get away with and playing golf (badly!) at North Berwick, and enjoys reading and doing crosswords.