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Departmental officers

Department management team

Head of Department

Professor

Research interests:

  • Biological fluid dynamics: active media, bioconvection and biofilms
  • Plankton patchiness and bloom dynamics
  • Interfacial instabilities
  • Bioreactors, ecology and biocontrol
  • Physiology

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Head of Department for Teaching

Research interests:

  • Pricing and hedging of options in models with imperfections
  • Novel financial models

Professor

Deputy Head of Department for Research

Chair, Department Research Committee

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes
  • Algebraic quantum field theory
  • Relativistic aspects of quantum information theory

Professor

Chair of Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Algebraic groups
  • Representation theory
  • Geometric invariant theory
  • Random walks on algebraic structures

Professor

Head of Applied Section

Research interests:

  • Quantum information theory 
  • Quantum technologies 
  • Foundations of quantum mechanics 

Professor

Head of Pure Section

Research interests:

  • Metric number theory
  • Diophantine approximation
  • Geometry of numbers
  • Uniform distribution
  • Measure and probability theory
  • Fractal geometry
  • Ergodic theory, dynamical systems
  • Applications of diophantine approximation (in PDEs, signal processing, etc.)

Professor

Research interests:

  • Functional data analysis
  • High-frequency financial econometrics
  • Network and time series modelling
  • Nonparametric and semiparametric methods

Administration Manager

Professor

Head of Section, Mathematical Finance

Research interests:

  • Investment under uncertainty
  • Applications of optimal stopping theory
  • Timing games
  • Theory of incomplete markets

Reader

Director of Admissions

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory
  • Quantum gravity
  • Operator algebras

Professor

Chair, Graduate Research School Committee

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and ecology
  • Dynamical systems
  • Stochastic processes

Lecturer

Chair of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (EDI)

Research interests:

  • Commutative algebra and its interactions with algebraic geometry
  • Invariant theory
  • Separating invariants
  • Applications of invariant theory and commutative algebra
  • Structural and practical identifiability of mathematical models, in particular identifiability and reparameterization of ODE models with time-series or steady-state data

Professor

Other committee and administrative roles

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Chair, Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Differential geometry of surfaces, mostly harmonic maps and minimal surfaces, using vector bundle and Higgs bundle methods

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory
  • Differential geometry
  • Quantisation
  • Algebraic aspects of deformations

Lecturer

Chair, Assessment Committee and Exams Officer

Research interests:

  • Computational statistics
  • Bayesian methodology
  • Time series and forecasting
  • Machine learning

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Bayesian statistics
  • Computational statistics
  • Finite mixture distributions
  • Time series

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Stochastic analysis
  • Rough paths
  • Probabilistic numerical methods
  • Data science

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Board of Examiners

Research interests:

  • Applied probability 
  • Convergence rates of random walks 
  • Perfect simulation 
  • Probabilistic coupling

Lecturer

Careers and Employability Officer

Research interests:

  • Stochastic models
  • Theoretical population genetics 
  • The evolution of coopoeration, multicellularity and sexual reproduction
  • The maintenance and stability of complex ecosystems

Lecturer

Undergraduate Admissions Officer

Research interests:

  • Moduli spaces arising in gauge theory, particularly moduli of Higgs bundles and quiver varieties, using Morse theory and geometric flows.

Reader

Research interests:

  • Non-relativistic quantum mechanics, including quantum information and the foundations of quantum theory

Professor

Fellowships Champion

Research interests:

  • Algebraic semigroup theory
  • Theory of semigroup acts
  • Model theory of semigroups and acts
  • Endomorphisms of universal algebras

Year Tutors

Senior Lecturer

First Year Tutor

Research interests:

  • Metric number theory
  • Diophantine approximation and their links with fractal geometry

Reader

Director of Global Partnerships

Research interests:

  • Homological methods in algebra
  • Partial symmetry
  • Representation theory
  • Geometric manifolds

Professor

Third and fourth year tutor

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics, especially classical and quantum field theory
  • Two-dimensional integrable quantum field theories with boundaries and defects