Research news

PhD student Gandhar Joshi was chosen as a finalist in the Mathematical Sciences category of the STEM for Britain poster competition in the House of Commons

Research by lecturer Kaustubh Adhikari and collaborators found that the proportion of people diagnosed with more advanced melanoma during Covid lockdown restrictions increased in Switzerland and Hungary.

Congratulations to Christian Cooke who completed his PhD degree on Mathematical modelling of electrical power system stability – Looking towards a zero carbon future and has secured a three-year postdoctoral position at The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC) based at the University of Porto, Portugal.

The Global Tipping Points Report, the most comprehensive assessment of tipping points, has been published, including contributions from Ivan Sudakow and Pallavi Anand.

Dan Rust and collaborators have been awarded a £20,000 Isaac Newton Institute Network Support grant for The Grimm Network in Aperiodic Order. 

Ivan Sudakow and Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester) have been awarded a £20,000 grant from the Isaac Newton Institute to develop the Mathematics of Mass Extinctions research network.

Welcome to new postdoctoral researcher Sam Cameron who will be working with Elsen Tjhung on Elsen's EPSRC-funded research project Thermodynamics of growing active and living matter.

The Alliance for Data Science Professionals has launched the Data Science Professional certificate which together with the Advanced Data Science Professional certificate offer two accreditation levels for those working in data science.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics supports an annual Student research bursaries programme. 

Kaustubh Adhikari's recent paper Neanderthal introgression in SCN9A impacts mechanical pain sensitivity, published in Communications Biology, suggests that individuals with certain Neanderthal variants in a gene are more sensitive to pain.