We’re proud to share the news that Professor Sarah Waters is among twelve Oxford academics who have been appointed to the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences’ inaugural cohort of Fellows, which will bring together the UK’s strongest mathematicians across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges.
The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci), founded in September 2023, brings together academia, education, business, industry, and government from across the UK to provide an authoritative, persuasive, and influential voice for the whole of the mathematical sciences. The Academy’s new Fellowship will bring together the UK’s ‘hidden problem solvers’, whose breadth of experience and depth of expertise will make the Fellowship much greater than the sum of its parts.
Working across focussed committees, the Fellows will contribute to projects of national importance -such as strengthening maths education in the UK, supporting responsible AI, addressing the UK’s leaky mathematical talent pipeline, and leveraging the mathematical sciences to tackle climate change – for the benefit of the whole UK.
Professor Sarah Waters, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Oxford’s Mathematical Institute, and a Fellow of St Anne’s, said:
‘I am delighted to join the first cohort of Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and to contribute to the Academy’s work. I am excited to champion the integration of mathematics into new fields of medicine, and build interdisciplinary collaborations in which mathematics drives innovation and advances clinical therapies.’
The full list of new Fellows can be found on the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences’ website.