Department of Maths & Stats Directory

• Head of Department: Mat Collins
• Department Manager: Alison Hume
• Department Administrator: Vacancy

The following are responsible for coordinating certain areas within the department.

• Directors of Education and Student Experience: Nigel Byott and Layal Hakim
• Director of Research and Impact: Peter Ashwin
• Director of Global Engagement: Mohamed Saidi
• Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity: Marc Goodfellow
• Director of Postgraduate Research: Ben Youngman
• Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes: Barrie Cooper
• Director of Business Engagement: Stefan Siegert

Other roles within the department:

• Department Seminar Coordinator: Victoria Volodina
• Admissions Officer: Tim Jupp
• Ethics Officers: Houry Melkonian and Chaitra H. Nagaraja
• Pastoral Mentor: Abbigail Horrocks
• Senior Tutor: Paul Hewson

Our Senior Academic Leads (SAL) look after staff associated with` specific research themes:

• SAL for Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics: Hugo Lambert
• SAL for Climate and Weather: Jim Haywood (T.B. Replaced 2025-26)
• SAL for Dynamical Systems and Analysis: Jan Sieber
• SAL for Number Theory, Algebra and Geometry: Andreas Langer
• SAL for Statistics and Data Science: Theo Economou
• SAL for Maths of Health and Life Science: Kirsty Wan

For a full departmental list of other roles undertaken by staff, please use this link.

Academic Staff office locations (where available)

Forename	Surname	Building	Room
Hamid	Alemi Ardakani	Harrison	201
Demi	Allen	Harrison	315
Peter	Ashwin	Harrison	338
Robert	Beare	Harrison	325
Vadim	Biktashev	Harrison	243
Julio Cesar	Bueno De Andrade	Laver	815
Nigel	Byott	Harrison	320
Jennifer	Catto	Laver	921
Peter	Challenor	Laver	607
Mat	Collins	Laver	922
Barrie	Cooper	Laver	816
Peter	Cox	Laver	901b
Luciana	Dalla Valle	Harrison	201
Theo	Economou	Laver	605
Georgios	Efstathiou	Laver	814c
Dorka	Fekete	Laver	603
Christopher	Ferro	Laver	606
Claire	Foullon	Laver	722
Pierre	Friedlingstein	Laver	720
Andrew	Gilbert	Harrison	337
Marc	Goodfellow	Sir Steve Smith	T05.10
Layal	Hakim	Harrison	324
Jim	Haywood	Laver	720
Paul	Hewson	Laver	603
Andrew	Hillier	Laver	814b
Mark	Holland	Harrison	327
Abby	Horrocks	Harrison	161
Henri	Johnston	Laver	814a
Timothy	Jupp	Laver	916
Mark	Kelson	Laver	604
Frank	Kwasniok	Harrison	326
Hugo	Lambert	Laver	918
Andreas	Langer	Harrison	316
Christopher	Lazda	Harrison	315
Gihan	Marasingha	Harrison	108
Joanne	Mason	Harrison	336
Stephen	McGuire	Harrison	315
Houry	Melkonian	Laver	814e
Hossein	Mohammadi	Laver	608
Chaitra	Nagaraja	Harrison	242
Tarje	Nissen-Meyer	Laver	40
Michael	O’Sullivan	Laver	605
Daniel	Partridge	Laver	814d
Oscar	Rodriguez De Rivera Ortega	Laver	608
Mohamed	Saidi	Harrison	314
James	Salter	Laver	603
Tony	Samuel	Harrison	201
James	Screen	Laver	920
William	Seviour	Harrison	335
Jemma	Shipton	Harrison	317
Jan	Sieber	Harrison	333
Stefan	Siegert	Laver	701
Piotr	Slowinski	Sir Steve Smith	T03.01
David	Stephenson	Laver	611
Magdalena	Strauss	Sir Steve Smith	T03.01
Stephen	Thomson	Harrison	317
John	Thuburn	Harrison	340
Jimmy	Tseng	Harrison	210
Geoffrey	Vallis	Harrison	318
Margaritis	Voliotis	Sir Steve Smith	T03.01
Victoria	Volodina	Laver	608
Jamie	Walker	Laver	906
Kirsty	Wan	Sir Steve Smith	T03.09
Kyle	Wedgwood	Sir Steve Smith	T03.13
Mark	Williamson	Laver	908
Beth	Wingate	Harrison	339
Benjamin	Youngman	Laver	817