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 research fellows​
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Anshima Singh
I research on applications of flow-based deep generative models.
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I am Anshima Singh, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. I joined the department in February 2025. I am a member of the Manchester node of the Prob_AI Hub (an EPSRC-funded Hub for the Mathematical and Computational Foundations of AI), led locally by Prof. Catherine Powell. I am working with Prof. David Silvester on applications of flow-based deep generative models.
Prior to joining Manchester, I was a Project Associate at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, where I worked on designing physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). I completed my PhD in Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India, where my research focused on high-order numerical methods for time-fractional partial differential equations. My broader research interests span scientific computing, machine learning, numerical methods, and fractional differential equations.
I am passionate about developing efficient computational techniques that bridge classical mathematics and modern machine learning, and I am delighted to be part of the vibrant mathematics community at Manchester.
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Anna Dmitrieva
My research lies in an area of Mathematical Logic called Model Theory.
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I am a Research Associate at the University of Manchester. My research lies in an area of Mathematical Logic called Model Theory. Currently I study the model-theoretical properties of the complex field equipped with a holomorphic function.
Before coming to Manchester I completed a PhD in Mathematics at the University of East Anglia (2021-2025). I also did a Master of Logic at University of Amsterdam (2019-2021), for which I was awarded VvL Master’s Thesis Award, and a Bachelor of Mathematics at Higher School of Economics (2015-2019).
Meet our academic staff
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Jing Zhou
My research focuses on high-dimensional statistics, with a particular interest in Approximate Message Passing (AMP).
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I am a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Manchester.
My research focuses on high-dimensional statistics, with a particular interest in Approximate Message Passing (AMP). I also work on robust estimation, causal inference, and their applications in biomedical sciences and econometrics.
Before joining Manchester, I was a Lecturer at the University of East Anglia from 2023 to 2025 and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO) from 2020 to 2023. During the fellowship, I was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and a Guest Professor at Ghent University. I earned my PhD degree from KU Leuven in 2020.
Outside academia, I enjoy cycling, hiking, and sketching.
Jing's research profile
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Ines B. Henriques-Cadby
My research interests span between Mathematics and Statistics, with a strong interest for Health applications.
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Following an undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, I secured a fellowship to pursue doctoral studies in the US. Since then, reflecting the global nature of research in this field, I have held positions across Europe and the US, including research fellowships funded by the Portuguese National Foundation, the UK’s NIHR and MRC.
In 2022, I joined The University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Mathematics of Data Science, following several years at the University of Sheffield and the University of California-Riverside.
My research interests span between Mathematics and Statistics, with a strong interest for Health applications. Some of my work in statistics has focused in understanding public health challenges related to alcohol, and drugs, other aims to improve the methodology used in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Beyond statistics, my work focuses in Commutative and Homological Algebra, and explores connections with Representation Theory, Algebraic Geometry, Singularity Theory, and Machine Learning.
Ines's research profile
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Apala Majumdar
I am an applied mathematician with expertise at the interface of continuum mechanics, modelling, applied analysis and theoretical physics.
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I work as a Professor of Applied Mathematics, here at the University of Manchester. I completed my undergraduate studies and my PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Bristol. My PhD was partially sponsored by a postgraduate CASE (Competitive Award in Science and Engineering) studentship with Hewlett Packard. I was awarded my PhD in 2006 and moved to the University of Oxford in the same year, on receipt of an independent Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 research fellowship. I was fortunate to receive a five-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship in 2011 and took up my first faculty post at the University of Bath in 2012. In 2019, I was appointed as a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde and in 2025, I moved to The University of Manchester.
I am an applied mathematician with expertise at the interface of continuum mechanics, modelling, applied analysis and theoretical physics. I primarily specialise in the mathematics and modelling of liquid crystals and partially ordered materials, including their applications in science and industry. I am passionate about interdisciplinary research and am committed to global engagement in science, with a research network spanning across Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. I have also co-pioneered the UK Retreat for Women in Applied Mathematics (RWAM), which is now being adopted globally in Asia and Africa. I firmly believe that mathematics has no boundaries and should be accessible to people from all walks of life.
Apala's research profile
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Holly Barker
I organise the annual undergraduate conference MIMUC and the peer support scheme (PASS) in Maths.
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I have been a Teaching and Scholarship Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Manchester since 2023 and I teach applied mathematics, programming and actuarial science modules. Among other things, I organise the annual undergraduate conference MIMUC and the peer support scheme (PASS) in Maths. In scholarship, my main interests are e-assessment (including STACK), large-group teaching, employability and authentic assessment. I hold a PhD in applied mathematics from The University of Manchester (2017-2021) which focused on the modelling of uranium hydride formation. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Holly's research profile
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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