Georgia Institute of Technology
Rachel Kuske is a Professor of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was also department chair from 2017-2021. Most recently her research is in stochastic dynamics in multi-scale, delayed, or non-smooth systems, and in stochastic transitions or “tipping points”, with applications in energy, biology, mechanics, and climate systems.
Before joining Georgia Tech, she was at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for 15 years, where she was elected SIAM Fellow in 2015, and received a number of other awards including a Canada Research Chair (2002-2012) and the Canadian Mathematical Society’s Krieger-Nelson prize (2011). At UBC she also held positions as Department Head (2007-2011) and as the Senior Advisor to the Provost on Women Faculty ((2011-2015). In 2016 she held a Simons Fellowship at the Newton Institute in Cambridge.
University of Oxford
Professor Colin Please works on the mathematical modelling of physical phenomena arising in practical problems and interpreting the results into the original context. His research takes place at the interface of mathematics with other disciplines primarily engineering, and bioscience.
Eindhoven University of Technology
Mark Peletier obtained an MSc in mathematics from Leiden University (cum laude), and a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies at the Laboratoire d'Analyse Numérique (now Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions) of Université Paris VI, both in 1992. He received his PhD at Leiden University (1997). His research interest focuses on differential equations and their applications to real-world systems.
University of Leeds
Professor John Kent did his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in Mathematics in and his PhD at Cambridge University in Statistics. He has spent the bulk of his academic career at Leeds University where he has been since 1977. He has wide interests across Statistics and Probability.
University of Cambridge
Carola graduated from the Institute for Mathematics, University of Salzburg (Austria) in 2004. From 2004 to 2005 she held a teaching position in Salzburg. She received her PhD degree from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2009. After one year of postdoctoral activity at the University of Göttingen (Germany), she became a Lecturer at Cambridge in 2010, promoted to Reader in 2015 and promoted to Professor in 2018.
London Data Company
Dr Jasmine Grimsley is Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer at the London Data Company. Prior to that she was Head of Science and Research in the Environmental Monitoring for Health Protection (EMHP) programme at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
Schlumberger
Simon Bittleston worked for Schlumberger for 35 years. He joined Schlumberger Cambridge Research in 1985 as a scientist working in fluid mechanics on a range of complex and industrially relevant problems. This work resulted in a number of commercial products. Whilst at the lab he became a programme manager responsible for team of scientists.
