Stephen is a National Teaching Fellow (NTF) with Advance HE (Higher Education). He won the award for his work in Widening Participation (WP), programming in the Maths curriculum, and his interdisciplinary research feeding into teaching: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/ntfs/dr-stephen-lynch
He is a Professor of Digital Skills, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (FIMA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He is Chair of the North-West Branch of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). He was concurrently an Associate Lecturer with the Open University (2008-2012). In 2010, he volunteered as a STEM Ambassador and in 2014 he became a Speaker for Schools. His research area is in Dynamical Systems, and he is a world leader in the use of Maths packages in teaching, learning, assessment, research and employability. He is the co-inventor of binary oscillator computing and the author of ten books. Note that all his Springer books have accompanying working programs that can be downloaded from the web. According to Springer, chapters for his books have been downloaded over 750,000 times. Working with the IMA, he delivers one-day national workshops in the UK on “Python for A-Level Mathematics and Beyond.” He also delivers a 5-day international workshop on “Python for Scientific Computating and TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence.” He has run the workshops in China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the USA.
He is a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, the Institute of Physics, CRC Press and Springer International Publishing.
He has been External Examiner/Course Reviewer at Coventry University, Plymouth University and Salford University.
Research areas
According to ScholarGPS, he is ranked #23 in the world for Dynamical Systems.
He researches with Maple, MATLAB, Mathematica and Python.
Schools Liaison: He has visited over 100 schools/colleges in the UK.
He runs national workshops on “Python for A-Level Maths and Beyond” with the IMA.
He runs international workshops on “Python for Scientific Computing and TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence.”
2022: National Teaching Fellow
2016: Senior Fellow of the HEA
2015: Fellow of the IMA
2000- present: Chair of the North-West Branch of the IMA
1990-2015: Member of the London Mathematical Society
He has published 10 books, 4 book chapters, 2 patents, 4 conference proceedings, and over 45 highly interdisciplinary journal articles.
Scholar GPS: https://scholargps.com/scholars/53907764717005/stephen-lynch?e_ref=5a87db3a668bc9f521b3
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=LRBJKhIAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Lynch-5