Andrew Pullan Explained

Andrew Pullan
Birth Name:	Andrew John Pullan
Death Place:	Auckland, New Zealand
Fields:	Biomedical engineering
Workplaces:	University of Auckland
Alma Mater:	University of Auckland
Thesis Title:	Quasilinearised infiltration and the boundary element method
Thesis Url:	http://voyager.auckland.ac.nz/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=746928
Thesis Year:	1988
Doctoral Students:	Merryn Tawhai^[1]

Andrew John Pullan (1963 – 7 March 2012) was a New Zealand mathematician specialising in bio-electrical modelling. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Academic career

After attending Aorere College in Māngere, Pullan received a scholarship to the University of Auckland where he studied mathematics before moving to the engineering school to work on biomedical engineering finite-element models of the heart and models of electrical activity in the gastrointestinal tract. His 1988 doctoral thesis was titled Quasilinearised infiltration and the boundary element method with Professor Ian Collins as his supervisor.^[2] He was appointed head of department from 2008 to 2010. He died in March 2012 of metastatic melanoma.^[3]

Selected works

• New advances in gastrointestinal motility research
• Mathematically modelling the electrical activity of the heart : from cell to body surface and back again

External links

• Google scholar
• Blog

Notes and References

1. An anatomically based mathematical model of the human lungs, applied to gas mixing and water vapour and heat transport . ResearchSpace@Auckland . 2001 . Doctoral . en . Merryn Howatson . Tawhai.
2. Pullan . Andrew . 1988 . Doctoral thesis . Quasilinearised infiltration and the boundary element method . ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland . 2292/52129.
3. Web site: Andrew John Pullan.