Potential Supervisors for SRIM projects

Potential Supervisors for SRIM projects in Summer 2025

This page contains a list of Faculty members in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) who have been approved for supervising summer research project(s) in summer 2025.

Interested students should contact supervisors to make sure they are available and discuss potential projects before submitting the SRIM Expression of Interest form (Cambridge maths students) or Internship Expression of Interest form (applicants from other departments and universities - please check you are eligible as an external applicant before contacting potential supervisors).

You are welcome to contact anyone on the list to discuss the possibility of a project. However, please note that appearing on the list does not guarantee that a supervisor will be available or willing to supervise a summer research project unless they have also advertised a specific project or general project outline. The list of projects and outlines for summer 2025 is available here and projects are linked below alongside the relevant supervisor.

Faculty members who no longer wish to appear on this list can request to be removed by submitting this form. To be added contact SRIM@maths.cam.ac.uk.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)

Research in DAMTP is loosely organised into eight broad subject areas. Many Faculty members contribute to more than one area.

Applied and Computational Analysis
Astrophysics
Geophysics
Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Mathematical Biology
Quantum Information
High Energy Physics
General Relativity and Cosmology

Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS)

Research in DPMMS is loosely organised into seven broad subject areas. Many Faculty members contribute to more than one area.

Combinatorics
Algebraic Geometry
Number Theory and Algebra
Differential Geometry and Topology
Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
Probability, Applied Probability and Mathematical Finance
Statistics

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)

Applied and Computational Analysis

Potential Supervisor	Project Information (if available)
Dr Ander Biguri	Data-driven computed tomography reconstruction
Dr Matt Colbrook
Professor Nilanjana Datta
Professor Hamza Fawzi
Dr James Fergusson
Professor Anders Hansen
Professor Paul Linden
Dr Chaoyu Liu	Extending Neural Operators to Unsupervised Learning and Non-Standard Geometries
Dr Davide Murari	Symplectic Neural Networks for Modelling and Discovery
Professor Nigel Peake
Dr Fatemeh Rezaee	Machine Learning for Unifying Patterns in Algebraic Geometry
Professor Carola Bibiane Schönlieb
Dr Alexei Shadrin
Professor Edriss Titi

Astrophysics

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Dr William Coulton	A needle in a haystack: statistical separation of the oldest light in the Universe
Dr Loren E Held	Vertical oscillations in accretion disks with dust or radiation
Dr David Hosking	Topological nature of magnetised turbulence
Dr Fiona McCarthy	A needle in a haystack: statistical separation of the oldest light in the Universe
Professor Gordon Ogilvie

Geophysics

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Peter Haynes
Dr Duncan Hewitt	Hydrothermal circulation near mid-ocean ridges
Prosessor Quentin Kriaa	Quentin Kriaa is joining DAMTP on 01/04/2025. At the moment, he can be contacted on his current email address (University of Twente).
Professor John Lister
Dr Alison Ming	North Atlantic Hurricanes Ozone feedbacks in the stratosphere
Professor Jerome Neufeld
Professor John Taylor

Fluid and Solid Mechanics

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor David Abrahams
Professor Natalia Berloff
Professor Stuart Dalziel
Dr Daria Frank
Professor Peter Haynes
Dr Duncan Hewitt	Hydrothermal circulation near mid-ocean ridges
Dr David Hosking	Topological nature of magnetised turbulence High-confinement operation of a levitated-dipole fusion reactor
Prosessor Quentin Kriaa	Quentin Kriaa is joining DAMTP on 01/04/2025. At the moment, he can be contacted on his current email address (University of Twente).
Professor Eric Lauga
Professor Paul Linden
Professor John Lister
Dr Alison Ming	North Atlantic Hurricanes Ozone feedbacks in the stratosphere
Professor Jerome Neufeld
Professor Gordon Ogilvie
Professor Nigel Peake
Professor Ben Simons
Dr Orsola Rath Spivack
Professor John Taylor
Dr Chris Warner

Mathematical Biology

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Stephen Eglen
Professor Anders Hansen
Professor Eric Lauga
Professor Gos Micklem
Professor Carola Bibiane Schönlieb
Professor Ben Simons
Professor Mihaela van der Schaar

Quantum Information

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Ángela Capel Cuevas	Quantum information theory and quantum many-body systems
Professor Nilanjana Datta
Dr Berry Groisman

High Energy Physics

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Nicholas Dorey
Dr Jonathan Evans
Dr James Moore	Uncertainty estimation in the theory of parton distributions
Dr Aron Wall
Professor Matthew Wingate

General Relativity and Cosmology

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Dr William Coulton	A needle in a haystack: statistical separation of the oldest light in the Universe
Professor Jonathan Gair
Dr Fiona McCarthy	A needle in a haystack: statistical separation of the oldest light in the Universe
Dr Peter O'Donnell
Professor Paul Shellard
Professor Blake Sherwin
Professor Ulrich Sperhake
Dr Aron Wall
Professor Claude Warnick
Dr Stav Zalel

Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS)

Combinatorics

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Tim Gowers
Dr Fatemeh Rezaee	Machine Learning for Unifying Patterns in Algebraic Geometry Singularities of the Hilbert schemes of points Applications of the scattering diagram
Dr Joni Teräväinen
Dr Nicholas Williams	Combinatorics of KP solitons

Algebraic Geometry

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Ian Grojnowski
Professor Dhruv Ranganathan
Dr Fatemeh Rezaee	Machine Learning for Unifying Patterns in Algebraic Geometry Singularities of the Hilbert schemes of points Applications of the scattering diagram

Potential Supervisor

Project Information

Professor Ian Grojnowski

Professor Dhruv Ranganathan

Dr Fatemeh Rezaee

Machine Learning for Unifying Patterns in Algebraic Geometry

Singularities of the Hilbert schemes of points

Applications of the scattering diagram

Number Theory and Algebra

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Holly Krieger	p-adic dynamics and the failure of Newton's method
Dr Joni Teräväinen
Dr Gareth Wilkes

Differential Geometry and Topology

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Dr Henry Bradford	Residual finiteness of graph wreath products
Dr Alexei Kovalev
Dr Chaoyu Liu	Extending Neural Operators to Unsupervised Learning and Non-Standard Geometries

Analysis and Partial Differential Equations

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Dr Chaoyu Liu	Extending Neural Operators to Unsupervised Learning and Non-Standard Geometries
Professor Clément Mouhot
Professor Pierre Raphael
Professor Claude Warnick

Probability, Applied Probability, and Mathematical Finance

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor Ioannis Kontoyiannis
Dr Andjela Sarkovic	Cutoff for small set expanders
Professor Perla Sousi
Dr Sourav Sarkar

Statistics

Potential Supervisor	Project Information
Professor John Aston
Dr Sergio Bacallado
Professor Varun Jog
Professor Po-Ling Loh	Potential topic / research area: statistical theory for differential privacy and robustness, possibly with an emphasis on random graphs
Dr Kaisey Mandel
Professor Richard Nickl
Professor Richard Samworth	Statistical aspects of Large Language Models How should we do linear regression?
Professor Qingyuan Zhao