Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2006) SIAM Fellow (2009) EPSRC Established Career Fellowship (2015–2019) London Mathematical Society Shephard Prize (2020) Desmond John Higham (born 17 February 1964 in Salford) is an applied mathematician and Professor of Numerical Analysis the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
[1] He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BSc in 1985, MSc in and 1986 and PhD 1988.
[3] In 2020 he was awarded the Shephard Prize from the London Mathematical Society[4] In 2024 he was awarded the Impact Prize from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society[5] He held an Established Career Fellowship from the EPSRC/URKI Digital Economy programme and was institutional lead on the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Programme Grant Inference, Computation and Numerics for Insights into Cities (ICONIC).
[6] He was a member of Sub-panel 10, Mathematical Sciences, for the 2021 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).
He is a member of the Physical Sciences Panel for the 2026 Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise.