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Our research community

The Department of Mathematics is housed within the world-class University of York, and combines leading mathematical and interdisciplinary research with high quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), 100 percent of our research was rated as 4* or 3*.

The Department currently comprises approximately 60 academic and research staff and 130 graduate students (including PhD and MSc). Our principal areas of research are:

Early Career Forum

The Department of Mathematics' Early Career Forum is a supportive network of researchers in the early stages of their careers. The Forum provides support in a range of areas relevant to early career researchers, in line with the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, including Environment and Culture, Employment, and Professional and Career Development. The Forum also provides valuable networking opportunities.

If you'd like more information about the Forum, please contact mate.farkas@york.ac.uk

Fellowship holders at the Department of Mathematics

Our current Fellows include:

2025 - Patricia Ribes Metidieri - Royal Commission For The Exhibition Of 1851 - Unveiling black hole entanglement

2025 - Ingrid Vukusic - Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship -Diophantine and Metric Number Theory

2024 - Benjamin Ward - Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship - A measure-theoretic framework for differences of limsup sets.

2024 - Aristide Ndongmo Ngana - Marie Skłodowska - Curie  Postdoctoral Fellowship and UKRI Guarantee Postdoctoral Fellow - Mathematical analysis of binary fluid mixtures 

2024 - Christiane Klein - Walter-Benjamin Fellow - Quantum effects and quantum measurements

2024 - Benito A Juárez Aubry - EPSRC Open Fellowship  - Semiclassical gravity: conceptual and mathematical foundations 

2021 - Chris Bowman-Scargill  - EPSRC Early Career Fellowship -  Tensor and wreath products of symmetric groups

Some of our past Fellows include:

Past  FELLOWS

Dr Haralampos Geranios working on ‘Problems in Modular Representation Theory of General Linear Groups’, 2017-2022, University Research Fellowship, The Royal Society.

Dr Matthew Pusey working on better understanding of the formalism of quantum theory, until 2021, Research Fellowship, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

Dr George Constable working on ‘Uncertainty in Evolutionary Dynamics’, 2017 to 2020, Early Career Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust

Dr Paul Razafimandimby, working with Prof. Zdzislaw Brzezniak on ‘Stochastic Ericksen-Leslie Equations’ (SELEs), 2019-2021, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship.

Dr Fiona Bate working with Professor Martin Bees on 'Optimising Biofuel Production in Spatial Models of Wastewater Treatment' 2019-2021 Daphne Jackson Research Fellow.

Dr Eleni Kontou, working with Professor Chris Fewster on ‘Quantum Energy Conditions and Singularity Theorems’ (QuEST), 2017-2019, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship.

Dr Rida-E Zenab, working with Professor Victoria Gould on ‘Factorisations of restriction semigroups’, 2017-2019, Faculty for the Future Fellowship program of Schlumberger Foundation.

Dr Munazza Naz, working with Professor Victoria Gould on the ‘Study of the Semigroup Type Properties of the Set of all n x n Matrices over Tropical Semiring’, 2016-2018, Faculty for the Future Fellowship program of Schlumberger Foundation.

Dr Markus Fröb, working with Professor Atsushi Higuchi on 'Quasi-local observables in quantum gravity' (QLO-QG), 2016-2018, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship.

Next steps

Opportunities
Explore Early Career Fellowships available at the Department of Mathematics.
Case studies
Hear from past and present Fellows about their application journey
How to apply
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