Professor Mark Broom obtained a BA (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1989, followed by an MSc in Statistics (1990) and a PhD in Mathematics (1993) at the University of Sheffield. He then held a postdoctoral research position again at Sheffield (1993-5) and a temporary lecturing position at the University of Glasgow (1995-6). He joined the University of Sussex as a Lecturer in 1996, where he worked until the end of 2009, most recently as Reader in Mathematics, and he was the Head of the Department of Mathematics from 2007 to 2009. Mark was appointed as Professor of Mathematics at City University in January 2010. He was Head of the Department of Mathematics from August 2020 to April 2024.
In 2023, together with Jan Rychtář, he completed the second edition of the book Game-Theoretical Models in Biology published by Chapman and Hall. The first edition was published in 2013.
He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Dynamic Games and Applications, Theoretical Population Biology, BioPhysMath and the Chapman and Hall Mathematical Biology book series.
He is the founder of the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution series of research conferences, on the Executive Board of the International Socety of Dynamic Games and on the Board of the Society for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology.
