Research news

The Alliance for Data Science Professionals has launched the Data Science Professional certificate which together with the Advanced Data Science Professional certificate offer two accreditation levels for those working in data science.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics supports an annual Student research bursaries programme. 

Kaustubh Adhikari's recent paper Neanderthal introgression in SCN9A impacts mechanical pain sensitivity, published in Communications Biology, suggests that individuals with certain Neanderthal variants in a gene are more sensitive to pain.

Congratulations to Ivan Sudakow who has secured a Research in Groups project on Exploring scaling of mass extinction events for climate tipping point modelling at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh.

Congratulations to Robert Brignall who with colleagues has been awarded a mini-workshop on Permutations patterns at Oberwolfach.

Congratulations to June Barrow-Green who (with Sarah Hart) has been awarded a four-month programme on the Modern History of Mathematics to be held at the Isaac Newton Institute from January to April 2025. 

Congratulations to Gustavo Rodrigues Ferreira for securing first a London Mathematical Society Early Career Fellowship at Imperial College London and then a postdoctoral research position at Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona.

A recent paper by Kaustubh Adhikari reported several new genes linked to face shape variation in diverse ethnicities.

Congratulations to Álvaro Bustos-Gajardo for securing a three-year postdoctoral research position at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 

Dan Rust and colleagues Felix Flicker (Cardiff), Henna Koivusalo (Bristol), and Mike Whittaker (Glasgow) have launched The Grimm Network, a series of wandering meetings on all aspects of aperiodic order.