Women in mathematics
As a department, we are strongly committed to equality and diversity, and the success of our female mathematicians, be they staff or students.
We hold a bronze Athena SWAN award, demonstrating our commitment in this area, and showing the way forwards to a more diverse future.
Mathematics and its applications have never been more important to society, nor has the diversity of places of work and study. At The University of Manchester, we pride ourselves on the diversity of our student population, where we have consistently ranked above the national averages in the gender diversity of our undergraduate, master's and research postgraduate students in mathematics.
Meet our academic staff
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Yang Han
My research focuses on simultaneous inference, multiple testing, and statistical machine learning.
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I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. I joined the department in September 2017.
My research focuses on simultaneous inference, multiple testing, and statistical machine learning, with applications across various fields. It has been both enjoyable and rewarding to work in the department over the years.
Yang's research profile
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Vandita Patel
I am a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics with research interest in Number Theory.
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I joined Manchester as a Neumann Research Fellow (2019-21) and became a Lecturer in 2021. Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Toronto (2017-19). I obtained my PhD at the University of Warwick (2013-17).
My research interests are in Number theory, (classical) modular forms and Diophantine equations, Galois representations, enumerating number fields, permutation polynomials over finite fields.
Vandita's research profile
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Francoise Tisseur
My research ranges from developing fundamental theory to implementing new algorithms.
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I am a Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Manchester. I completed my PhD in 1997 from the University of St-Etienne, France. I joined the University of Manchester in 1998 after a year long postdoc at the University of Tennessee, during which I developed and implemented a parallel symmetric eigensolver for ScaLAPACK, a library of high-performance linear algebra routines for parallel distributed memory machines.
My research work spans the full range of topics from developing fundamental theory to deriving algorithms and implementing them in software. I have contributed to the numerical solution of nonlinear eigenvalue problems and structured matrix problems and have worked at the interface of the subject with approximation theory, control theory, tropical geometry, differential geometry, mechanical engineering, and other areas.
I have won a sequence of major prizes, the most recent being the Froehlich Prize from the London Mathematics Society in 2020 - the first time this prize had been awarded to a woman. I am regularly invited to give plenary talks at major international conferences including the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture to over 3000 participants at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2019. I became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2016, was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2014, the Adams Prize from the University of Cambridge and St John's College in 2012, and a Whitehead Prize from London Mathematical Society in 2010.
Francoise's research profile
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Christiana Charalambous
I develop statistical models for disease risk prediction. I am also a passionate advocate for EDIA.
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I am a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Manchester since 2011. I am also a UoM alumna (I completed both my UG and PhD studies here) and hold an MPhil in Statistics from the University of Cambridge.
My primary research interests focus on developing statistical models for disease risk prediction. I employ joint models, to account for the associations between longitudinal biomarkers and survival outcomes, leading several projects in this domain. My work aims to improve health outcomes for patients across various contexts, including cardiovascular disease, kidney infection and chronic pain.
I am also a passionate advocate for EDIA and enjoy engaging with students in my various roles as teacher, advisor and mentor.
Christiana's research profile
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Louise Walker
I am a great enthusiast for working with students as partners.
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I am a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. I completed my PhD in Pure Mathematics from the same university in 1991. After that I did a PGCE, which allowed me to explore my interest in maths education, and it opened my eyes to teaching mathematics and the theory of learning.
I am a great enthusiast for working with students as partners. The PASS scheme, which I coordinated for many years, brings together first year students who work together with support from higher year students. More recently I have worked with student partners to develop feedback literacy, study skills sessions and learning activities for abstract algebra courses.
Louise's research profile
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Alejandra Vicente Colmenares
I am a strong advocate of inclusive and accessible learning, and I am also keen in outreach activities.
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I graduated with a PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Waterloo back in 2015. During my PhD I worked in classifying moduli spaces of rank 2, semistable co-Higgs bundles over Hirzebruch surfaces. After graduating, I worked as a sessional lecturer for the University of Waterloo until December 2020, when I joined the University of Manchester as a Teaching Fellow.
I am now a Lecturer in Mathematics (T & S), and I am interested in Maths education. I am a strong advocate of inclusive and accessible learning, and I am also keen in outreach activities. I work only part-time as I have two little girls at home, who I love to spend time with, and I often spend time volunteering at their school with Maths activities, supporting reading and leading STEAM and Spanish clubs.
Women at Manchester throughout history
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Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912-2014)
Appointed as a lecturer in Manchester shortly after WW2, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw had a distinguished career in mathematics and politics, becoming a founding Fellow and President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
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Hanna Neumann (1914-1971)
Hanna Neumman was a prominent group theorist, most well known for her work on varieties of groups. She contributed to Manchester gaining a reputation for strength in algebra; a tradition that continues to this day.
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Phyllis Nicolson (1917-1968)
Phyllis Nicolson received her BSc (1938), MSc (1939) and PhD (1946) in Physics from The University of Manchester. She is most well-known for her work on the Crank-Nicolson method, to numerically solve the heat equation and other similar partial differential equations.
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Joan Walsh (1932-2017)
Joan Walsh, who worked at The University of Manchester from 1963 to 1998, was a key figure in the development of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in the UK, as well as a founding Chairman of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) Ltd.
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