Rate My Professor Mike Jeffrey

Jeffrey's research centers on geometrical asymptotics, delving into singular and discontinuous phenomena in dynamical systems. He examines the mathematics governing qualitative world features, particularly interactions between life and technology via discontinuities from decision-making, biological, and electronic regulation. Expertise encompasses nonsmooth systems, bifurcations, catastrophes, averaging theory, perturbation, and determinacy. He has authored books such as "Modeling with Nonsmooth Dynamics" (2020), "Hidden Dynamics" (2018), "An Introduction to Piecewise Smooth Dynamics" (2017), "Underlying Catastrophes: Umbilics and Pattern Formation" (2024), and "Elementary Catastrophes Underlying Bifurcations of Vector Fields and PDEs" (2024). Notable publications include "Conical Diffraction: Hamilton's Diabolical Point at the Heart of Crystal Optics" with M.V. Berry (Progress in Optics, 2007), "Bifurcations of Piecewise Smooth Flows: Perspectives, Methodologies and Open Problems" (Physica D, 2012), "Perturbation and Determinacy of Nonsmooth Systems" (Physica D, 2025), and "Bifurcations and Catastrophes of Dynamical Systems with Centre Dimension One" (Nonlinearity, 2026). With 75 research outputs and recognition via Google Scholar citations exceeding 2,495, his work influences applied nonlinear mathematics. Awards include the EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship for "When Worlds Collide: The Asymptotics of Interacting Systems" (2012-2016). He has led projects like "Resolving Discontinuities in the Behaviour of Dynamical Systems" (2016-2018) and organized events such as Dynamics Days Europe 2010.