Dr Thomas Williams is a mathematical and computational biologist at the University of Melbourne with a special interest in spatiotemporal processes, both at the between- and within-cell scale. His work applies a ground-up, inference-based approach, and has a focus on biological application.

Dr Williams completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of A/Prof James Osborne and Prof James McCaw. His work, modelling the spread of viral infections within the host, identified key features of the dynamics where spatial structure played an essential role, with consequences for the design of both model and experiments. A collaboration with researchers at the University of St Andrews, where he completed his Masters, also led to publications on spatiotemporal modelling of tumour invasion.