Alan Wilson is Professor of Urban and Regional Systems in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London and is Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1991 to 2004, and Director-General for Higher Education in DfES from 2004-2006. He was elected as a Member of Academia Europaea in 1991, a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2000, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. He was knighted for services to higher education in 2001. His work in urban and regional modeling set the agenda for the field in the 1970s. He now works on the evolution of cities and regions and his research has recently been supported by a £2.5M EPSRC grant to work on the ENFOLD-ing project for global dynamics. Recent papers include Boltzmann, Lotka and Volterra and Spatial Structural Evolution: an Integrated Methodology For Some Dynamical Systems, Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 5, pp. 865-871, 2008 and Science and the city, Environment and planning, A, 40, pp. 2800-2808.
Alan is co-editor of the newly published book, Employment Locations in Cities and Regions: Models and Applications, published by Springer in December 2012. Click here for more information.
His work, Urban Modelling: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies (Volumes 1-5) was published by Routledge in September 2012. Click here for more information.
The Science of Cities and Regions: Lectures on Mathematical Model Design, was published by Springer in January 2012. Click here for more information.
Knowledge Power: Interdisciplinary Education for a complex world, was published by Routledge in February 2011. Click here for more information.