Good News

Alison (second from left), Professor of Probability in Oxford and President of the recently created Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, has been recognised with a Doctor of Science (DSc) from Heriot-Watt University.

Kira Patel, now a 4th year mathematics undergraduate, won the prize for the best Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Vacation Internships poster at the EPSRC Poster Event on November 6th. Kira's poster title was 'A viscous catenary in glass tube manufacture'. She was supervised by Peter Howell.

Image: Bertha Morisot - The Cheval Glass

The Knowledge Exchange (KE) Hub for Mathematical Sciences led by our own Chris Breward has been named Knowledge Exchange (KE) Team of the Year 2025 at the KE Awards held in Salford last week. 

More October starters

Vsevolod Chestnov, PDRA in Mathematical Physics, Research Group Mathematical Physics: N1.02

Martin Peev: PDRA in Stochastic Analysis, Research Group Stochastic Analysis: S3.24

November starters

Lukas Waas, PDRA in Topological Data Analysis, Topology: S3.12

Nemanja Draganic, PDRA in Combinatorics, Combinatorics: N3.21

Congratulations to Ulrike who has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen.

Ulrike is a Professor of Mathematics here in Oxford specialising in algebraic topology and also Director of the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.

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José Carrillo has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2026. José is Professor of the Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations here in the Mathematical Institute and Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics at The Queen's College.

Full list

September new starters:

Ellie Chen, Outreach Administrator: S0.21

Chenjing Bu, PDRA in Algebraic Geometry: N3.04

Devarshi Mukherjee, Marie Curie Fellow 2025: N3.21

Lida Kanari, Medical Research Council Fellow: S3.37

Akash Jain, PDRA in Mathematical Physics: S1.52

Thomas Bartschm, PDRA in Mathematical Physics: N1.05

Our congratulations go to the following colleagues who have received an award this year in recognition of their exceptional contribution. Staff in grades 1-10 with more than six months of service are eligible to be nominated for an award, including PDRAs and Research Fellows.

Katherine Goult, Outreach Administrator

Charlotte Holmes, Finance Apprentice

Balint Koczor, Senior Research Fellow

Dave Miller, Full-Stack Development Lead

Joanna Walker, Deputy Head of Academic Administration

Recent postgraduate student Wei Xiong has been awarded the PLEXUS Advancement Award for Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Sector. 

The award is for the PhD thesis 'Dynamics of Market Making Algorithms in Dealer Markets'.