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Mathematics
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2026

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Mathematics

D-Index
75
Citations
71481
World Ranking
197
National Ranking
115

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
69
Citations
29779
World Ranking
408
National Ranking
188

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2013 - Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
  • 2011 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to nonlinear dynamics spanning the range from theory to applications.
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Philip Holmes is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches combining health, environment, and complex systems.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics and venues, including:

  • Decoding the exposome: data science methodologies and implications in exposome-wide association studies (ExWASs), 2024, Exposome
  • Some elements for a history of the dynamical systems theory, 2021, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • A long and winding road: culture change on data sharing in exposomics, 2024, Exposome
  • The First International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) Standard Dataset for Reporting Outcomes in Heart Valve Disease: Moving From Device- to Patient-Centered Outcomes, 2025, Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  • Unlocking the Power of Data Harmonization in Environmental Health Sciences: A Comprehensive Exploration of Significance, Use Cases, and Recommendations for Standardization Efforts, 2025, Environmental Health Perspectives

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Ming Kei Chung
  • Farida S. Akhtari
  • Konstantinos C. Makris
  • John S. House
  • Xiuxia Du

Publication venues where Philip Holmes has frequently contributed include:

  • Exposome
  • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society

The scientist has also contributed a book titled Celestial Encounters, published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

Their main areas of study are Medicine and its subfields, including:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Accounting
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Key research topics include:

  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
  • Chaos control and synchronization
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Research Data Management Practices

Philip Holmes has been recognized by several professional organizations and awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
  • Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, 2013
  • SIAM Fellow, 2011, for contributions to nonlinear dynamics spanning theory to applications
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1993

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields

    John Guckenheimer;Philip Holmes;M. Slemrod

  • The Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in the Analysis of Turbulent Flows

    Gal Berkooz;Philip Holmes;John L. Lumley

  • Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry

    Philip Holmes;John Leask Lumley;Gal Berkooz

  • The physics of optimal decision making: a formal analysis of models of performance in two-alternative forced-choice tasks.

    Rafal Bogacz;Eric Brown;Jeff Moehlis;Philip Holmes

  • The dynamics of coherent structures in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer.

    Nadine Aubry;Philip Holmes;John L. Lumley;Emily Stone

  • A periodically forced piecewise linear oscillator

    Steven Shaw;Philip Holmes

  • The Dynamics of Legged Locomotion: Models, Analyses, and Challenges

    Philip Holmes;Robert J. Full;Dan Koditschek;John Guckenheimer

  • Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry: OTHER APPLICATIONS AND RELATED WORK

    Philip Holmes;John L. Lumley;Gahl Berkooz;Clarence W. Rowley

  • The nature of the coupling between segmental oscillators of the lamprey spinal generator for locomotion: a mathematical model.

    Avis H. Cohen;Philip J. Holmes;Richard H. Rand

  • A magnetoelastic strange attractor

    F.C. Moon;P.J. Holmes

  • On the Phase Reduction and Response Dynamics of Neural Oscillator Populations

    Eric Brown;Jeff Moehlis;Philip Holmes

  • A Simply Stabilized Running Model

    R. M. Ghigliazza;R. Altendorfer;P. Holmes;D. Koditschek

  • Heteroclinic cycles and modulated travelling waves in a system with D 4 symmetry

    Sue Ann Campbell;Philip Holmes

  • A Model of Interval Timing by Neural Integration

    Patrick Simen;Fuat Balci;Laura deSouza;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Structurally stable heteroclinic cycles

    John Guckenheimer;Philip Holmes

  • A partial differential equation with infinitely many periodic orbits: Chaotic oscillations of a forced beam

    Philip Holmes;Jerrold E. Marsden

  • Quantifying dynamic stability and maneuverability in legged locomotion.

    Robert J. Full;Timothy Kubow;John Schmitt;Philip Holmes

  • Low-dimensional models of coherent structures in turbulence

    Philip J. Holmes;John L. Lumley;Gal Berkooz;Gal Berkooz;Jonathan C. Mattingly

  • Mechanical models for insect locomotion: dynamics and stability in the horizontal plane I. Theory.

    John Schmitt;Philip Holmes

  • Nonlinear oscillations, dynamical systems, and bifurcations of vector fields

    John Guckenheimer;Philip Holmes

  • New Approaches to Nonlinear Problems in Dynamics

    Philip J. Holmes;P. K. C. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley Cornell University
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Jeff Moehlis
Jeff Moehlis University of California, Santa Barbara
Jerrold E. Marsden
Jerrold E. Marsden California Institute of Technology
John Guckenheimer
John Guckenheimer Cornell University
Rafal Bogacz
Rafal Bogacz University of Oxford
Daniel E. Koditschek
Daniel E. Koditschek University of Pennsylvania
Michael I. Weinstein
Michael I. Weinstein Columbia University
Fuat Balcı
Fuat Balcı University of Manitoba
Deborah A. Prentice
Deborah A. Prentice Princeton University

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