Q&A Panel: Your Research Career in Mathematics

During TMT2021 many attendees were keen to discuss how to advance their mathematical careers after graduation, so we have decided to introduce a new feature for TMT2022 - a panel discussion at which mathematicians at different stages of their careers will answer questions from the audience. This will take place on Saturday 5 March following the keynote lecture by Dr Julia Wolf.

We are delighted that Emma Bailey, Nira Chamberlain, Shahzeb Raja Noureen and Julia Wolf have agreed to be members of the panel.

Dr Emma Bailey is a Research Associate at the City University of New York, based at the Graduate Center. Last year she was a Viterbi Fellow at the the MSRI program Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems. Previously she was a Heilbronn Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD in Mathematics at the University of Bristol in July 2020, under the supervision of Professor Jon Keating.

Professor Nira Chamberlain OBE has worked all over the world, helping a range of industrial partners with mathematical modelling, and is a Visiting Professor at Loughborough University. He is the immediate past President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is regularly included in Powerlist, an annual publication celebrating the 100 most influential British people from African and African Caribbean heritage. He was awarded an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to mathematical sciences.

Shahzeb Raja Noureen is working on his PhD on mathematical biology at the University of Bath, studying ell motility models, pattern formation in mammals. He previously completed a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Greenwich and MSc in Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London.

Dr Julia Wolf is Associate Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College Cambridge. Her research interests are mostly discrete in nature, and broadly lie at the intersection of combinatorics, number theory and harmonic analysis. Some of her work has close connections with model theory and ergodic theory, and applications to theoretical computer science. In 2016 she was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Anne Bennett Prize "in recognition of her outstanding contributions to additive number theory, combinatorics and harmonic analysis and to the mathematical community".