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Over 110 people work in the Department of Mathematics.
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G/N/148B
Research interests:
- Mathematical physics
- Variational theory and its applications
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/IMG_0848 (3).jpeg)
Research interests:
- Algebraic groups
- Representation theory
- Geometric invariant theory
- Random walks on algebraic structures
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Research interests:
- Biological fluid dynamics: active media, bioconvection and biofilms
- Plankton patchiness and bloom dynamics
- Interfacial instabilities
- Bioreactors, ecology and biocontrol
- Physiology
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Victor Beresnevich.jpg)
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.)
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Chris_Bowman1.jpg)
Research interests:
- Combinatorics
- Lie theory
- Knot theory
- Categorical representation theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Zdzislaw Brzezniak.jpg)
Research interests:
- Stochastic analysis
- Stochastic partial differential equations
- Equations of mathematical physics (Navier-Stokes, Equler, wave and Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert)
- Mathematical foundations of the Feynman path integrals
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Zaq Coelho.jpg)
Research interests:
- Ergodic theory
- Dynamical systems
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Roger Colbeck.jpg)
Research interests:
- Quantum information theory
- Quantum technologies
- Foundations of quantum mechanics
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Stephen Connor.jpg)
Research interests:
- Applied probability
- Convergence rates of random walks
- Perfect simulation
- Probabilistic coupling
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/George Constable-218x225.jpg)
Research interests:
- Stochastic models
- Theoretical population genetics
- The evolution of coopoeration, multicellularity and sexual reproduction
- The maintenance and stability of complex ecosystems
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Ed Corrigan.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical physics, especially classical and quantum field theory
- Two-dimensional integrable quantum field theories with boundaries and defects
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Francesco_Cosentino.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum information
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Nigel Cutland.jpg)
G/N/148B
Research interests:
- Nonstandard analysis (especially Loeb spaces) and applications (especially in probability and stochastic analysis)
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Alexei Daletskii.jpg)
Research interests:
- Stochastic analysis
- Global analysis
- Mathematical physics
Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Gustav Delius.jpg)
Research interests:
- Size-based models of marine ecosystems
- Scale invariance in ecological modelling
- Computational ecology and deep learning
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Research interests:
- Representation theory of symmetric groups
- Iwahori–Hecke algebras
- Ariki-Koike algebras
- KLR algebras
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Maurice Dodson.jpg)
G/N/148B
Research interests:
- Number theory
- Dynamical systems
- Harmonic analysis and applications
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Stephen Donkin.jpg)
Research interests:
- Algebra, especially Lie type representation theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Emilie-Dufresne-200px.jpg)
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
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Eric Dykeman.jpg)
Research interests:
- Stochastic and kinetic modeling in biology
- RNA viruses
- Ribosome kinetics
- Applied group and representation theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/20181028_103732-188x242.jpg)
Research interests:
- Homological methods in algebra
- Partial symmetry
- Representation theory
- Geometric manifolds
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Simon Eveson.jpg)
Research interests:
- Functional analysis
- Operator theory
- Applications
Research interests:
- Computational mathematics
- Dynamical systems
- Data analysis
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G/N/163A
Research interests:
- Quantum information theory
- Foundations of quantum theory
- Certification of quantum devices
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Fewster.jpg)
Research interests:
- Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes
- Algebraic quantum field theory
- Relativistic aspects of quantum information theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Haralampos_Geranios-218x308.jpg)
Research interests:
- Representation theory
- Cohomology of algebraic groups and related objects, including quantum groups, symmetric groups and Hecke algebras.
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Victoria Gould.jpg)
Research interests:
- Algebraic semigroup theory
- Theory of semigroup acts
- Model theory of semigroups and acts
- Endomorphisms of universal algebras
Research interests:
- Representations of reductive algebraic groups and related topics
- Tilting objects in highest weight categories
- Homological methods in representation theory
- Tensor categories, tensor ideals
- (Diagrammatic) categorification
- Coxeter groups, Hecke algebras, Soergel bimodules
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Richard Hall.jpg)
G/N/148B
Research interests:
- Analytic number theory and analysis
Research interests:
- Data science
- Time series
- Statistics in sport
- Teaching and learning pedagogy
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Eli Hawkins.jpg)
Research interests:
- Quantum field theory
- Differential geometry
- Quantisation
- Algebraic aspects of deformations
G/N/106
Research interests:
- Modular representation theory
- Diagrammatic Hecke category
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/thomas-hebdige-218.jpg)
Research interests:
- Quantum information theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Atsushi Higuchi.jpg)
Research interests:
- Quantum field theory
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Peter Hines
Research interests:
- (inverse) semigroup theory
- category theory
- logic (linear and intuitionistic)
- theoretical computer science
- quantum computing & foundations
- cryptography & computer security
- linguistics & natural language processing
- algebraic topology
- cognitive science & psychology
- information theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Christopher Hughes.jpg)
Research interests:
- Analytic number theory
- Random matrix theory
- Riemann zeta function
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Konstantin Ilin.jpg)
Research interests:
- Fluid dynamics
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Hydrodynamic stability theory
Dr Boda Kang
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G/N/148B
Research interests:
- Quantum fields
- Quantum gravity
- Fundamental problems in quantum theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Karina-Kirkina-220px.jpg)
G/N/113
Research interests:
- Algebra, namely affine Kac-Moody groups over finite fields and related topics
- Mathematical pedagogy
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Marina Knight.jpg)
Research interests:
- Nonstationary time series
- Wavelet multiscale methods
- Networks
- Long-memory processes
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/dr-zamir-koshuriyan.jpg)
G/N/040
Research interests:
- Asymptotic analysis for acoustic wave propagation
- Diffraction/scattering theory
- Kinematic/dynamical modelling of non-homogeneous turbulence in jets
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Richard Law.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical biology
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Jason Levesley.jpg)
Research interests:
- Metric number theory
- Diophantine approximation and their links with fractal geometry
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Degui Li.jpg)
Research interests:
- Functional data analysis
- High-frequency financial econometrics
- Network and time series modelling
- Nonparametric and semiparametric methods
Research interests:
- Stochastic analysis
- Rough paths
- Probabilistic numerical methods
- Data science
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Niall MacKay.jpg)
Research interests:
- Integrable models and quantum groups
- Operations research and military history
- Probability forecasting
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Ian McIntosh.jpg)
Research interests:
- Differential geometry of surfaces, mostly harmonic maps and minimal surfaces, using vector bundle and Higgs bundle methods
G/N/104
Research interests:
- Representation theory of symmetric and related groups
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Max Nazarov.jpg)
Research interests:
- Algebraic and combinatorial aspects of the representation theory of quantum affine algebras, including applications to quantum integrable systems.
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Research interests:
- Classical and quantum field theories in low space-time dimensions.
- Integrable systems.
- Generalised TTbar deformations and the ODE/IM correspondence.
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Agostino Nobile.jpg)
Research interests:
- Bayesian statistics
- Computational statistics
- Finite mixture distributions
- Time series
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Jon Pitchford.jpg)
B/C/011
Research interests:
- Mathematical biology and ecology
- Dynamical systems
- Stochastic processes
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/BP_profile_pic-218x290.jpg)
Research interests:
- Computational statistics
- Bayesian methodology
- Time series and forecasting
- Machine learning
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G/N/104
Research interests:
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Matthew_Pusey-218x218.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum information
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Dmitri (Mitya) Pushkin.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical biology and chemistry
G/N/163A
Research interests:
Classical and singular stochastic (geometric)
Partial differential equations (SPDEs)
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/_DSC6457-218x271.jpg)
Research interests:
- Quantum field theory
- Quantum gravity
- Operator algebras
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Alet Roux.jpg)
Research interests:
- Pricing and hedging of options in models with imperfections
- Novel financial models
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/P1310747 Dr David Simmons crop 1200.side image.jpg)
Research interests:
- Number theory
- Geometry and analysis
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Evgeny Sklyanin.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum information
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Mike Smith.jpg)
G/N/148B
Research interests:
- Measure theory
- Probability
- Traffic flow
Dr Harry Southworth
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Hamid (2).jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum information
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Jacco Thijssen (large).jpg)
Research interests:
- Investment under uncertainty
- Applications of optimal stopping theory
- Timing games
- Theory of incomplete markets
G/N/144
Research interests:
Pure mathematics (geometric analysis)
Statistical methodology (Bayesian methods)
Medicine (analyses for clinical trials)
Education research.
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Reidun Twarock.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical biology and chemistry
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Sanju Velani.jpg)
Research interests:
- Number theory
- Dynamical systems
- Discrete groups
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Benoit_Vicedo-218x272.jpg)
Research interests:
- Integrable systems
- Classical and quantum integrable field theories
Dr Paul Voutier
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Stefan Weigert.jpg)
Research interests:
- Non-relativistic quantum mechanics, including quantum information and the foundations of quantum theory
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Graeme_Wilkin-218x221.jpg)
Research interests:
- Moduli spaces arising in gauge theory, particularly moduli of Higgs bundles and quiver varieties, using Morse theory and geometric flows.
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Jamie Wood.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical modelling
- Collective motion
- Systems biology
- Operations research
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Chris Wood.jpg)
Research interests:
- Geometry and analysis
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Tomasz Zastawniak.jpg)
Research interests:
- Mathematical finance
- Stochastic analysis
- Mathematical physics
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Wenyang Zhang.jpg)
Research interests:
- High dimensional/big data analysis
- Financial data analysis
- Nonparametric modelling
- Nonlinear time series
- Survival analysis
- Functional data analysis
- Spatial data analysis
- Multi-level modelling
- Structural equation models
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/maths/Dr-Yue-Zhao-218x230.jpg)
Research interests:
- Copula method
- High-dimensional statistics
- Survival analysis
- Statistical inference for deep neural networks
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Research interests:
- Number Theory, Diophantine Approximations, Metric Number Theory, Elimination Theory, Transcendence Theory, Algebraic Geometry, geometry of numbers, Arakelov’s Geometry, measure and probability theory, ergodic theory, dynamical systems.