Ruth Elizabeth Baker is a British applied mathematician and mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford whose research interests include pattern formation, morphogenesis, and the mathematical modeling of cell biology and developmental biology.
Baker read mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford,[1] and earned a doctorate (D.Phil.)
Her dissertation, Periodic Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology: A Study of the Mechanisms Involved in Somite Formation, was jointly supervised by biologist Santiago Schnell and mathematician Philip Maini, who was also the doctoral supervisor of Schnell.
[4] Baker was a 2014 winner of the Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society "for her outstanding contributions to the field of Mathematical Biology".
[5] She was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her work in "efficient computational methods for testing biological hypotheses" in 2017.