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Over 110 people work in the Department of Mathematics.

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Asma Alalyani

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical finance
  • Stochastic analysis

Hessa Alharbi

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical finance
  • Stochastic analysis

Research Associate

Arnon Archankul

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical finance
  • Stochastic analysis

Professor Emeritus

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics
  • Variational theory and its applications

EPSRC Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory
  • Gravitation
  • Relativistic quantum information

Professor

Research interests:

  • Algebraic groups
  • Representation theory
  • Geometric invariant theory
  • Random walks on algebraic structures

Adam Beales

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Quantum information

Head of Department

Professor

Research interests:

  • Biological fluid dynamics: active media, bioconvection and biofilms
  • Plankton patchiness and bloom dynamics
  • Interfacial instabilities
  • Bioreactors, ecology and biocontrol
  • Physiology

Professor

Head of Pure Section

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.)

Reader

Research interests:

  • Combinatorics
  • Lie theory
  • Knot theory
  • Categorical representation theory

Nick Bryant

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Professor

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dingjia Cao

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Statistics and probability

Reader in Statistical Data Science

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Ergodic theory
  • Dynamical systems

Professor

Head of Applied Section

Research interests:

  • Quantum information theory 
  • Quantum technologies 
  • Foundations of quantum mechanics 

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Board of Examiners

Research interests:

  • Applied probability 
  • Convergence rates of random walks 
  • Perfect simulation 
  • Probabilistic coupling

Lecturer

Chair, Assessment Committee and Exams Officer

Research interests:

  • Stochastic models
  • Theoretical population genetics 
  • The evolution of coopoeration, multicellularity and sexual reproduction
  • The maintenance and stability of complex ecosystems

Emeritus Professor

Third and fourth year tutor

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics, especially classical and quantum field theory
  • Two-dimensional integrable quantum field theories with boundaries and defects

Student Services Administrator (Exams and Assessments)

Professor Emeritus

Research interests:

  • Nonstandard analysis (especially Loeb spaces) and applications (especially in probability and stochastic analysis)

Reader

Research interests:

  • Stochastic analysis
  • Global analysis
  • Mathematical physics

Levent Dasar

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Algebra

Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant

Honorary fellow

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Size-based models of marine ecosystems
  • Scale invariance in ecological modelling
  • Computational ecology and deep learning

London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellow

Research interests:

  • Representation theory of symmetric groups
  • Iwahori–Hecke algebras
  • Ariki-Koike algebras
  • KLR algebras

Bethany Dixon

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Number theory

Professor Emeritus

mmd1@york.ac.uk

G/N/148B

Research interests:

  • Number theory
  • Dynamical systems
  • Harmonic analysis and applications

Professor Emeritus

Research interests:

  • Algebra, especially Lie type representation theory

Lecturer

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

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Stochastic and kinetic modeling in biology
  • RNA viruses
  • Ribosome kinetics
  • Applied group and representation theory

Sam Engleman

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Geometry and analysis

Reader

Director of Global Partnerships

Research interests:

  • Homological methods in algebra
  • Partial symmetry
  • Representation theory
  • Geometric manifolds

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Functional analysis
  • Operator theory
  • Applications

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research interests:

  • Computational mathematics
  • Dynamical systems
  • Data analysis

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Quantum information theory
  • Foundations of quantum theory
  • Certification of quantum devices

Professor

Deputy Head of Department for Research

Chair, Department Research Committee

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes
  • Algebraic quantum field theory
  • Relativistic aspects of quantum information theory

PDRA

Research interests:

  • Quantum information

Professor Emeritus

jbf1@york.ac.uk

G/N/148B

Research interests:

  • Semigroup theory
  • Group theory

Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader

Research interests:

  • Representation theory
  • Cohomology of algebraic groups and related objects, including quantum groups, symmetric groups and Hecke algebras.

Undergraduate Administrator

Student Services Assistant

Professor

Fellowships Champion

Research interests:

  • Algebraic semigroup theory
  • Theory of semigroup acts
  • Model theory of semigroups and acts
  • Endomorphisms of universal algebras

Ben Graham

PhD student

Research interests:

Mathematical Physics

Lecturer

Impact and Knowledge Exchange Lead

Research interests:

  • Data science
  • Time series
  • Statistics in sport
  • Teaching and learning pedagogy

Simon Hart

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Algebra

Zane Hassoun

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Statistics and probability 

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory
  • Differential geometry
  • Quantisation
  • Algebraic aspects of deformations

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Quantum information theory

Daniel Hendron

PhD student

Professor

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Peter Hines

Honorary Fellow

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

Reader

Chair, Graduate Research School Committee

Research interests:

  • Analytic number theory
  • Random matrix theory
  • Riemann zeta function

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Fluid dynamics
  • Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Hydrodynamic stability theory

Cixiao Jiang

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Statistics and probability

Junxuan Jiang

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Statistics and probability

Dr Boda Kang

Honorary visiting fellow

Professor Emeritus

Research interests:

  • Quantum fields
  • Quantum gravity
  • Fundamental problems in quantum theory

Honorary fellow

Shashaank Khanna

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Quantum information

Harkan Kirk-Karakaya

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics

Associate Lecturer

Second Year Tutor

Research interests:

  • Algebra, namely affine Kac-Moody groups over finite fields and related topics
  • Mathematical pedagogy

Professor

Head of Statistics Section

Research interests:

  • Nonstationary time series
  • Wavelet multiscale methods
  • Networks
  • Long-memory processes

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Asymptotic analysis for acoustic wave propagation
  • Diffraction/scattering theory
  • Kinematic/dynamical modelling of non-homogeneous turbulence in jets

Professor Emeritus

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations

Senior Lecturer

First Year Tutor

Research interests:

  • Metric number theory
  • Diophantine approximation and their links with fractal geometry

Emeritus Professor

Research interests:

  • Functional data analysis
  • High-frequency financial econometrics
  • Network and time series modelling
  • Nonparametric and semiparametric methods

Ricky Li

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Stochastic analysis
  • Rough paths
  • Probabilistic numerical methods
  • Data science

Peter Lloyd

PhD student

Solomon Lugmayer

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Number theory

Professor

Research interests:

  • Integrable models and quantum groups
  • Operations research and military history
  • Applied statistics and forecasting

Student Wellbeing Officer

Alistair Mansfield

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Quantum information

James Mason

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Chair, Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Differential geometry of surfaces, mostly harmonic maps and minimal surfaces, using vector bundle and Higgs bundle methods

Benjamin Mills

PhD student

Research interests:

Algebra

Jamie Milne

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Professor

Research interests:

  • Algebraic and combinatorial aspects of the representation theory of quantum affine algebras, including applications to quantum integrable systems.

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Classical and quantum field theories in low space-time dimensions.
  • Integrable systems.
  • Generalised TTbar deformations and the ODE/IM correspondence.

UKRI Guarantee Postdoctoral Fellowship

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Bayesian statistics
  • Computational statistics
  • Finite mixture distributions
  • Time series

Andrew Pearce-Crump

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Number theory

Professor

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and ecology
  • Dynamical systems
  • Stochastic processes

Lecturer

Director of Admissions

Research interests:

  • Computational statistics
  • Bayesian methodology
  • Time series and forecasting
  • Machine learning

Lecturer

Research interests:

Statistics and Probability
Time Series
Mathematical Finance
Teaching and Learning Pedagogy

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics
  • Quantum information

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Lecturer

Careers and Employability Academic Lead

Research interests:

Classical and singular stochastic (geometric)

Partial differential equations (SPDEs) 

Business and Partnership Manager

Lisa Readdy

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Chair of Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Quantum field theory
  • Quantum gravity
  • Operator algebras

Senior Lecturer

Deputy Head of Department for Teaching

Research interests:

  • Pricing and hedging of options in models with imperfections
  • Novel financial models

Kuntal Sengupta

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Quantum information

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Number theory
  • Geometry and analysis

Professor Emeritus

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics
  • Quantum information

Jamie Smith

PhD student

Professor Emeritus

mjs7@york.ac.uk

G/N/148B

Research interests:

  • Measure theory
  • Probability
  • Traffic flow

Dr Harry Southworth

Honorary visiting fellow

Professor Emeritus

as2@york.ac.uk

G/N/148B

Research interests:

  • Quantum information
  • Lie algebras

Student Services Administrator (Exams and Assessments) (Maternity Leave)

Professor

Head of Section, Mathematical Finance

Research interests:

  • Investment under uncertainty
  • Applications of optimal stopping theory
  • Timing games
  • Theory of incomplete markets

Lecturer

Research interests:

Pure mathematics (geometric analysis)

Statistical methodology (Bayesian methods)

Medicine (analyses for clinical trials)

Education research.

Professor

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Dorsa Vakilzadeh Hatefi

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Number theory

Research Associate in Statistics

Research interests:

  • Statistical data modelling

Professor

Research interests:

  • Number theory
  • Dynamical systems
  • Discrete groups

Reader

Research interests:

  • Integrable systems
  • Classical and quantum integrable field theories

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical physics

Dr Paul Voutier

Honorary visiting fellow

Ying Wai Lee

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Number theory

Laurens Walleghem

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Quantum information

Liqiong Wang

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical finance
  • Stochastic analysis

Cordelia Webb

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Differential geometry

Reader

Research interests:

  • Non-relativistic quantum mechanics, including quantum information and the foundations of quantum theory

Lecturer

Undergraduate Admissions Officer

Research interests:

  • Moduli spaces arising in gauge theory, particularly moduli of Higgs bundles and quiver varieties, using Morse theory and geometric flows.

Professor

Chair of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (EDI)

Research interests:

  • Mathematical modelling
  • Collective motion
  • Systems biology
  • Operations research

Senior lecturer

Research interests:

  • Geometry and analysis

Student Services Administrator (Exams and Assessments)

PA to Head of Mathematics

Administrator

Professor

Research interests:

  • Mathematical finance
  • Stochastic analysis
  • Mathematical physics

Haoxuan Zhang

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Statistics and probability

Professor

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

Lecturer

Director of MSc in Statistics and Computational Finance

Research interests:

  • Copula method
  • High-dimensional statistics
  • Survival analysis
  • Statistical inference for deep neural networks

Art'om Zolotarjov

PhD student

Research interests:

  • Mathematical biology and chemistry

Reader

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.

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