Jack Carr PhD Internship Programme
Two internships are available to current PhD students in an African university to spend up to 6 weeks doing research related to their PhD topic at the Maxwell Institute in Edinburgh. A grant of up to £ 4,000, offered by the Jack Carr Fund, will cove travel, accommodation and subsistence costs for the duration of […]
Alexandre Martin awarded EPSRC Standard Grant
Dr. Alexandre Martin(Heriot-Watt) received an EPSRC Standard Grant in total value of £620K to work on the project titled “The Geometry of the Isomorphism Problem for Artin Groups.” The project will commence in September 2025, last for 3 years and involve a postdoctoral fellow.
Lorenzo Pareschi receives €2 million funding to help predict the unexpected
Prof. Lorenzo Pareschi, Chair of Applied Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University, received an Advanced Grant from the Italian Science Fund (FIS) in value of 2 million euros to study and better understand and predict complex phenomena such as epidemics, traffic, the economy and even how opinions spread on social media. See details here.
Víctor Elvira secures £1m ARIA funding to forecast climate tipping points
Víctor Elvira, Chair of Statistics and Data Science, has been awarded £1 million by Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to investigate and forecast climate tipping points — thresholds that, once crossed, will likely lead to cascading and irreversible changes to Earth’s climate. Major parts of the Earth system are at risk of crossing climate […]
John Pearson awarded EPSRC Standard Grant
John Pearson has been awarded funding from EPSRC for his project “Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra for Optimization and Control of PDEs”. The project is in collaboration with Stefan Güttel, University of Manchester and a PDRA will be employed at both institutions to work on the project. Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to describe mathematically […]