New research from the University of St Andrews has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than previously thought and provided an unexpected solution to a 50-year-old mystery about our nearest star.
Professor Ursula Martin, Honorary Professor in the School, has been appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to science and education.
We are now recruiting for a new Chair in Statistics, with closing date 21 July 2025. The new chair will be part of our world-leading Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM).
We congratulate School of Mathematics and Statistics staff David Rees Jones and Lars Olsen who have received prestigious awards for their teaching excellence.
The School is currently advertising for a Lecturer in Analysis within Pure Mathematics.
Dimitrios Katsaounis, a PhD student in the Mathematical Biology group, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 London Mathematical Society Cecil King Travel Scholarship for early career mathematicians.
Chris Sutherland, a statistician in the School, has been awarded a £4.1M grant from the NERC to lead an interdisciplinary project NETGAIN to develop the science and practice of nature markets for a net positive future.
Scott Harper, a postdoctoral fellow in the School has been awarded the prestigious Reinhold Baer Prize 2024 for a young researcher working in group theory
The School is currently advertising for a Chair/Reader in Statistical Ecology, a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics and a Lecturer in Fluid Dynamics.
Daphné Lemasquerier and Jonathan Fraser have each been awarded a prestigious personal fellowship to enable them to concentrate on their research and develop their research teams.