Our academic staff

Dr Murat Akman

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Brunn-Minkowski type inequalities assocaited to quasi-linear elliptic PDEs and stability of these inequalities.; Minkowski type problems associated to quasi-linear elliptic PDEs.; Perturbation of elliptic operators on non-smooth domains; Regularity and free boundary regularity for quasi-linear elliptic PDEs in rough domains; Conformal densities and metric properties of measures

Dr Tahani Al-Karkhi

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Georgios Amanatidis

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Algorithmic Game theory; Graph Theory; Discrete Optimization

Dr Chris Antonopoulos

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Mathematical modelling of the brain; Mathematical approaches to infer network connectivity; Multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, chaotic dynamics and complex statistics; Mathematical modelling of the spread of COVID-19 in communities; Nonlinear dynamics and long-term behaviour; Synchronisation, chimera-like states and emergence of collective behaviour in complex systems

Dr Oludare Ariyo

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Biostatistics; Bayesian computational statistics; Joint modelling for longitudinal and survival analysis.; Multivariate Analysis; Mixed-Effect model; High-Dimensional data; Models for multivariate repeated measures

Dr Joseph Bailey

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Mathematical biology/ecology, individual and group movement, random walk theory, movement and time-series data analysis, mathematical education.

Dr Yanchun Bao

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Longitudinal data analysis; Survival analysis; Mendelian Randomization; Causal method (Instrumental variable method, structural mean model); Covariance modelling; Bioinformatics research for omic data

Dr Dan Brawn

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Jessica Claridge

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Network Coding; Information Theory; Coding Theory; Mathematics Education

Professor Edward Codling

Faculty Dean Research (Science and Health) - Professor (R), Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Animal movement and dispersal; Random walks and diffusion; Analysis of movement data; Collective behaviour; Human crowd behaviour; Animal social network analysis; Fisheries modelling, assessment, and management; Modelling population dynamics

Professor Hongsheng Dai

Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Bayesian computational statistics; Perfect Monte Carlo sampling; Mixture models; Graphical models; Diffusion models; Queuing models; Nonparametric statistics; Survival analysis; Longitudinal analysis; Distributed Deep Learning

Dr Tolulope Fadina

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Financial Mathematics; Risk Management; Actuarial Science

Dr Tao Gao

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Vasileios Giagos

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Inference for stochastic kinetic dynamics; Bayesian Analysis

Dr Georgi Grahovski

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Mathematical physics; Integrable systems (continuous and discrete); Theory of solitons. Nonlinear waves; Lie groups and Lie algebras. Symmetries; Spectral theory. Analysis of PDEs

Dr Sema Gunturkun

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Commutative algebra

Dr Wenxing Guo

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Statistical Machine Learning; Statistical Inference; Statistical Models

Dr Mario Gutierrez-Roig

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Geospatial Analysis; Urban Analytics & City Science; Complex Systems; Computational Social Science

Dr Stella Hadjiantoni

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Estimation of large-scale multivariate linear models and applications; Numerical methods for the development of recursive regularisation and machine learning algorithms; Numerical linear algebra in statistical computing and data science; Numerical methods for handling high-dimensional data sets

Dr Andrew Harrison

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Bioinformatics; Big data science

Professor Peter Higgins

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Algebraic Semigroups (primary); Formal Language Theory, Combinatorics and Graph Theory (secondary)

Dr Junlei Hu

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Professor Berthold Lausen

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Data Science

Dr Alastair Litterick

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Reductive algebraic groups; Finite groups of Lie type; Representation varieties

Dr Peng Liu

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Actuarial Science; Risk Management; Extreme Value Theory

Dr Jianya Lu

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Stochastic Processes; Probability Limit Theorems and Moderate Deviations; Time Series; Stochastic Algorithms

Dr Osama Mahmoud

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Medical Statistics and Genetic epidemiology; Causal inference in public health; Data Science and Machine Learning; Predictive modelling

Dr Felipe Maldonado

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Supply Chain & Logistics - Machine Learning Approach; Market Design and Optimisation; Revenue Management

Dr Jesus Martinez-Garcia

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Algebraic Geometry

Dr John O'Hara

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: The study of differential equations in finance

Dr Georgios Papamikos

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Continuous and Discrete Integrable Systems; Mathematical Physics; Algebraic methods in the study of Differential Equations

Dr David Penman

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: probabilistic combinatorics, especially random graphs with correlation structure; Paley graphs and other pseudo-random graphs; extremal Ramsey graphs; aspects of posets, quicksort-type algorithms; fixed point polynomials of finite permutation groups; aspects of additive combinatorics such as sets with more sums than differences; sandpile groups of graphs

Danilo Petti

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Yassir Rabhi

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Cure rate models; Nonparametric/Semiparametric methods for multivariate length-biased and censored data; Copulas and measures of dependence; Time series and spectral analysis

Professor Christopher Saker

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Combinatorics on words, particularly on the study of unavoidable factor sets and related topics; Mathematics Education

Professor Abdellah Salhi

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Optimisation Mathematical Programming and Heuristics (Evolutionary Computing, Nature-inspired Algorithms, the Strawberry Algorithm); Numerical Analysis Data Mining (Big Data) Bioinformatics

Dr Dmitry Savostyanov

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: High-dimensional problems; Tensor product decompositions

Dr Terry Sithole

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Alexei Vernitski

Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Applying algebra (especially semigroups) to study knots, graphs etc.; Mathematical education; in particular, increasing motivation of learners of mathematics; Machine learning in mathematics; reinforcement learning applied to knot theory; Deep learning and reinforcement learning, applied to mathematical problems

Dr Lisa Voigt

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Professor Spyridon Vrontos

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Actuarial Mathematics and Actuarial Modelling; Design of Optimal Bonus &ndash Malus Systems; Asset - Liability Management for Pension Funds; Performance Measurement for Pension Funds, Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds; Predictability of Financial Time Series; Risk Management and Solvency; Risk Theory

Dr Yafei Wang

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Functional data analysis; Stochastic optimization

Professor Gerald Williams

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Groups defined in terms of graphs; Circulant matrices and graphs; Cyclically presented groups

Dr Jackie Wong Siaw Tze

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Mortality modelling and forecasting; Bayesian computational statistics; Bayesian model comparison; Estimation of marginal likelihoods (bridge sampling); Machine learning in actuarial science

Dr Xinan Yang

Reader (R), Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Stochastic Optimization and its applications in Logistics, Telecommunications, Revenue Management and Energy.; Stochastic Optimization and Markov Decision Process (MDP); Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) and Reinforcement Learning; Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and solution approaches

Dr Jingjing Zhang

Lecturer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Data Science; Machine Learning; Statistics; Causal Inference

Kareemah Chopra

Senior Research Officer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Tiago Duarte Guerreiro

Senior Research Officer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Dr Shirsho Mukherjee

Senior Research Officer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Mateo Salles

Senior Research Officer, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Francisco Parrilla Andrade

Machine Learning Engineer (KTP Associate), Department of Mathematical Sciences

Charles Dominic

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Madalina-Daniela Mihailescu

Fixed Term Teacher, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Professor John Dowden

Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Research interests: Heat and mass transfer processes occurring in laser materials processing, in medicine and in geophysics.

Professor David Fremlin

Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences