Research news

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.

Congratulations to Ivan Sudakow who has secured a Research in Groups project on Exploring scaling of mass extinction events for climate tipping point modelling at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Congratulations to Robert Brignall who with colleagues has been awarded a mini-workshop on Permutations patterns at Oberwolfach.

Congratulations to June Barrow-Green who (with Sarah Hart) has been awarded a four-month programme on the Modern History of Mathematics to be held at the Isaac Newton Institute from January to April 2025. 

Congratulations to Gustavo Rodrigues Ferreira for securing first a London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship at Imperial College London and then a postdoctoral research position at Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona.

A recent paper by Kaustubh Adhikari reported several new genes linked to face shape variation in diverse ethnicities.

Congratulations to Álvaro Bustos-Gajardo for securing a three-year postdoctoral research position at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 

Dan Rust and colleagues Felix Flicker (Cardiff), Henna Koivusalo (Bristol), and Mike Whittaker (Glasgow) have launched The Grimm Network, a series of wandering meetings on all aspects of aperiodic order.

PhD student Mahfuzur Khokan has been awarded a London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship to work at the University of East Anglia with Professor Mizanur Khondoker on Developing statistical models to correct for biases in skin colour measurement machines.

Look out for this week's BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time on the mathematician Paul Erdős