DATAS - Key Persons


Alexander Schell

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Researcher at Columbia University
Alexander is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he works at the intersection of machine learning and statistically regularised dynamics. Prior to completing his DPhil in Mathematics at the University of Oxford in 2022 under the supervision of Harald Oberhauser, Alexander obtained a Master's degree in Pure Mathematics from Imperial College London and a Master's degree in Mathematics, with a minor in Theoretical Physics, from the University of Ulm.

Andrew Blake

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Consultant in Artificial Intelligence
  • Professor

Andrew McLeod

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Ben Graham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Researcher

Dan Crisan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor of Mathematics

John Greenlees

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Head of Mathematics Warwick University
John Greenlees obtained his PhD from Cambridge in 1986, and spent 3 years at the National University of Singapore and a year at the University of Chicago before moving to Sheffield in 1990. He spent 28 years there, serving as Head of Pure Maths and then Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics before moving to Warwick as Head of Department in 2018. He has published over 90 papers and 4 books on algebra and topology, and serves on the editorial boards of 3 algebraic topology journals. He has acted as undergraduate External Examiner for 5 institutions, and conducted external reviews for 7 departments. John was an organizer of the Oberwolfach Homotopy Theory meetings between 2007 and 2015, a meeting on the Kervaire Invariant at the ICMS in 2011, a 4 month programme at the Isaac Newton Institute in 2002 and the 6 month programme Homotopy Harnessing Higher structures in 2018. He has been on the Scientific Committee of the ICMS since 2011. John was Vice President of the London Mathematical Sciences from 2009 to 2019, and a member of the Board of the Council for Mathematical Sciences. He is Deputy Chair of the REF2021 Mathematical Sciences Subpanel, and also served on subpanels in REF2014 and RAE2018.

Marianne Rolph

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Senior Manager in Mathematical Sciences and ISCF, EPSRC
Marianne joined EPSRC in February 2018 as a portfolio manager in the Physical Sciences theme, looking after the Materials for Energy Applications, Electrochemical Sciences, and Plasma and Lasers portfolios. Since November 2019, Marianne has been a senior manager in the Mathematical Sciences theme, with responsibilities including oversight of the Mathematical Sciences Institutes (INI, ICMS).

Marta Sanz Sole

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • President of the European Mathematical Society
  • Professor at the University of Barcelona
Sanz-Solé is professor at the University of Barcelona, and member of the research group on stochastic processes. Prior to taking up her post at the UB, she was associate professor at the University Autònoma of Barcelona. She was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics UB from 1993-1996, and Vice-president of the Division of Experimental Sciences and Mathematics from 2000-2003.

Michael Garrett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Richard Craster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College
Richard Craster is the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College and formerly Head of Department of Mathematics at Imperial College a role he held for six years (2011-2017). He is also Director of the CNRS-Imperial "Abraham de Moivre" International Research Laboratory in Mathematics. He has been at Imperial College as an academic since 1998 apart from holding a distinguished professorship in Alberta, Canada, 2008-2010 returning to become Head of the Mathematics Department at Imperial. In addition to being a Professor of Applied Mathematics he is also a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Imperial.

Robert Calderbank

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Director of the Information Initiative at Duke University
  • IEEE Fellow
  • Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics
Robert Calderbank is Director of the Information Initiative at Duke University, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics. He joined Duke in 2010, completed a 3 year term as Dean of Natural Sciences in August 2013, and also served as Interim Director of the Duke Initiative in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2012. Before joining Duke he was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Princeton University where he also directed the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. Dr. Calderbank is an IEEE Fellow and an AT&T Fellow, and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005. He received the 2013 IEEE Hamming Medal for contributions to coding theory and communications and the 2015 Shannon Award.

Simon Lovestone

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Sir Bernard Lovell

Job Titles:
  • Chairman in Astrophysics
  • Chairman of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester
  • Director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Hello, my name is Mike Garrett. I am the inaugural Sir Bernard Lovell chair of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester and the Director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA). JBCA is a group of 190 people, including postgraduate students. We are based at two sites: the Alan Turing Building on the University campus in Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory (JBO) which is home to the iconic Lovell Telescope. We run e-MERLIN, the UK's radio astronomy National Facility, on behalf of STFC. My scientific interests are very broad but include the study of the distant universe via high resolution radio observations. I am also active in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and I am currently vice-chair of the IAAs SETI Permanent Committee. I am a visiting Professor at the University of Leiden.

Viktoriia Davletshyna

Job Titles:
  • Research Programme Manager for DataSıg, Is Based in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford