Andrew Pullan

Andrew Pullan
Born
Andrew John Pullan

1963 (1963)
Died7 March 2012(2012-03-07) (aged 48–49)
Auckland, New Zealand
EducationUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
FieldsBiomedical engineering
WorkplacesUniversity of Auckland
ThesisQuasilinearised infiltration and the boundary element method (1988)
Doctoral students
Merryn Tawhai

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 Papatoetoe, 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. He was appointed head of department from 2008 to 2010. He died in March 2012 of metastatic melanoma.

Selected works

References

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