Professor Paul Watton

About

Paul Watton has a first degree in Pure & Applied Mathematics from the University of Newcastle, an MSc in Mathematical Logic and the Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Manchester, and a PHD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Leeds. Following his PhD he had postdoctoral positions at the University of Glasgow (2003-2006) and the University of Oxford (2006-2013).The main focus of his research is developing theoretical/computational models for the biomechanics and mechanobiology of soft biological tissues with application to homeostasis, ageing and disease.Paul was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science in 2013, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017 and Professor of Computational and Theoretical Modelling in 2024. He also holds an adjunct profes

Selected publications

• Asadbeygi A, Robertson AM, Tobe Y, Zamani M, Stocker SD, Watton PN, Yoshiumra N & Watkins SC (2026) Quantifying local strain field and deformation in active contraction of bladder using a pretrained transformer model: A speckle-free approach. Results in Engineering, 30, 111039-111039.
• Azari F, Robertson AM, Tobe Y, Watton PN, Birder LA, Yoshimura N, Matsuoka K, Hardin C & Watkins S (2025) Elucidating the high compliance mechanism by which the urinary bladder fills under low pressures. Scientific Reports, 15(1). View this article in WRRO
• Rahman MM, Watton PN, Neu CP & Pierce DM (2025) Predicting the heterogeneous chemo-mechano-biological degeneration of cartilage using 3-D biphasic finite elements. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 270. View this article in WRRO
• Takaoka E, Kurobe M, Matsuoka K, Kamijo T, Kimura S, Watton PN, Robertson AM & Yoshimura N (2025) Adenosine receptor mechanisms underlying bladder dysfunction in male rats with bladder outlet obstruction. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 44(6), 1370-1377. View this article in WRRO
• Rahman MM, Watton PN, Neu CP & Pierce DM (2023) A chemo-mechano-biological modeling framework for cartilage evolving in health, disease, injury, and treatment. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 231. View this article in WRRO
• Cheng F, Watton P, Pederzani G, Kurobe M, Takaoka E-I, Chapple C, Birder L, Yoshimura N & Robertson A (2022) A constrained mixture-micturition-growth (CMMG) model of the urinary bladder: Application to partial bladder outlet obstruction (BOO). Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 134.
• Krishna CV, Suja VC, Watton P, Arakeri JA & Gundiah N (2020) Shear stress rosettes capture the complex flow physics in diseased arteries. Journal of Biomechanics, 104. View this article in WRRO
• Bhogal P, Pederzani G, Grytsan A, Loh Y, Brouwer PA, Andersson T, Gundiah N, Robertson AM, Watton PN & Söderman M (2019) The unexplained success of stentplasty vasospasm treatment. Clinical Neuroradiology, 29(4), 763-774.
• Xu H, Mei Y, Han X, Wei J, Watton PN, Jia W, Li A, Chen D & Xiong J (2019) Optimization schemes for endovascular repair with parallel technique based on hemodynamic analyses. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 35(6). View this article in WRRO
• Bevan T, Hornsby J, Merabet N, Thompson M & Watton P (2018) A biomechanical model for fibril recruitment: Evaluation in tendons and arteries. Journal of Biomechanics, 74, 192-196. View this article in WRRO