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Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Research
OCIAM is a world-leading research group in core applied mathematics.
We are the largest research group within the Mathematical Institute; between students, faculty, researchers, and visitors, the Centre has around 80 active members and many friends and collaborators around the world.
Because of the collaborative nature of our research, OCIAM cannot be divided into neat groups, nor do members fit into a single group. A division by application area can be found here.
Opportunities
Masters students are trained in industrial applications of mathematics via the MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing and the new MSc in Mathematical Sciences.
OCIAM takes 4-8 DPhil students a year onto our doctoral programme, which always attracts the best research students from across the world.
Here's some information about various Fellowships that are available to fund post-doctoral research.
Any postdoctoral positions we advertise on the University of Oxford vacancies page.
Faculty
- Prof. Alain Goriely FRS (Director)
- Prof. Andreas Münch (Deputy Director)
- Prof. Chris Breward
- Prof Maria Bruna
- Prof. S. Jon Chapman
- Prof. Mohit Dalwadi
- Prof. Paul J. Dellar
- Prof. Radek Erban
- Prof. Ian Griffiths
- Prof. Peter Grindrod CBE
- Prof. Heather Harrington
- Prof. Ian Hewitt
- Prof. Peter Howell
- Prof. Sam Howison
- Dr. Lida Kanari
- Prof. Renaud Lambiotte
- Prof. Derek Moulton
- Prof. James Oliver
- Prof. Justin Sirignano
- Prof. Dominic Vella
- Prof. Sarah Waters
- Dr Nicola Kirkham (PA to Directors & Research Support for OCIAM)
Everyone else in OCIAM is listed here
prizes | media | podcasts | public lectures
| PRIZES: All quiet on the awards front...
Unless you count one of the highest honours in UK Mathematics! Congratulations to our Director, Professor Alain Goriely, who has been awarded the 2025 LMS/IMA David Crighton Medal.
"The medal recognises his influential mathematical work on how things stretch, twist, grow and sometimes misbehave — from biological tissues to brain mechanics — as well as his generous support of early career researchers and tireless efforts to bring mathematics to life for the wider public."
| MEDIA: For those conchologists amongst you this was spotted glinting on the tide of today’s news, 'Hierarchical mechanical patterns in morphogenesis: from mollusc shells to plants, fungi and animals'
| PUBLIC LECTURE Join Prof Alain Goriely at Gresham College for 6 brilliant talks that cut to the heart of how the brain works — and how it breaks. At the cutting edge of science, delivered with clarity, precision, and surprising humour. Free & accessible to all here.
Case studies
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Spotlight
Professor Alain Goriely is Director of OCIAM, and the Statutory Chair of Mathematical Modelling. In this lecture he asks, 'Can Mathematics understand the brain?'
Spotlight
Jon Chapman is Professor of Mathematics and Its Applications in the University of Oxford. In this lecture he explains 'Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks.'
Spotlight
The Mathematics of Poking, a short film exploring an aspect of the work of Professor Dominic Vella.