Professor John Toland of the University of Bath took over from Sir
David Wallace in October 2011 as the Director of the Isaac Newton Institute and NM Rothschild & Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences.
John has been a professor at Bath since 1982 and between 2002 and 2010 he was also Scientific Director of the International
Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. His research interests include mathematical analysis, nonlinear partial differential
equations and the rigorous theory of steady water waves. He held an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship from 1997-2002 and is a Fellow of
the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He served as President of the London Mathematical Society from 2005 to 2007
and in 2010 was appointed Chair of the Mathematical Sciences panel for the Research Excellence Framework 2014 by the Higher Education
Funding Council for England. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union, the non-governmental
body for the promotion of co-operation in mathematics world wide.