About

Evgeny Khukhro: I am an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK. I was the founding Director of the Charlotte Scott Research Centre.

I was born and brought up in Novosibirsk, in Russia, where I graduated from Novosibirsk University. After graduation I worked at the Institute of Mathematics of Siberian Div. of Russian Academy of Sciences. I got my PhD from Novosibirsk University in 1980, and DSc (Habilitation) from Institute of Mathematics in 1988. I spent 1991-93 as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany. Since 1995 I worked in UK in various positions at Cardiff University and University of Manchester, before joining University of Lincoln in 2014, and I am retired since 2024.

Simon Smith: I am an Associate Professor in Pure Mathematics at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK and I’m Director of the Charlotte Scott Research Centre. After graduation from Imperial College London in 2001, I obtained my PhD in 2005 from the University of Oxford. From 2005 until 2009 I worked in finance, first as a quant and then as a trader. I began my academic career in 2010 at Syracuse University in the USA as a Philip T Church Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2012-13 I was an assistant professor at the City University of New York. In 2013 I won a prestigious early career researcher award (called a DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (only four were awarded globally in mathematics in the year of my award) and moved to the University of Western Australia for one year, returning to the City University of New York in 2014. While in New York I co-organised the New York Applied Algebra Seminar with Delaram Kahrobaei. My research interests are in both pure algebra (primarily group theory) and in applied algebra (primarily in ML applied to finance).

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Paula M Lins de Araujo: I am a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the University of Lincoln, UK. I got my Bachelor’s degree in 2012 at University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, and my Master’s degree in 2014 from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, and then obtained my PhD at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2019. In 2019-21 I worked in a post-doctoral position at KU Leuven Kulak in Belgium, funded by the Methusalem Grant of the Flemish Government.

Yuri Santos Rego: I am a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the University of Lincoln, UK. I got my Bachelor’s degree in 2012 at University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, and my Master’s degree in 2014 from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, and then obtained my PhD at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2019.
From 2019 to 2023 I was a research assistant at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, where I also became a researcher in the Priority Programme 2026 and postdoctoral member of the Research Training Group 2297, both financed by the German Research Foundation.

Helen Christodoulidi: I am a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Lincoln. I am Programme Leader for the mathematics degrees. In 2010 I was awarded my PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Patras in Greece, and part of my studies were carried out at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. I’ve held postdoctoral positions at the University of Padova in Italy and at the University of Patras. In 2017 I was awarded a research fellowship to study Complex Hamiltonian Systems at the Academy of Athens. My research involves applied algebra, and I have a research specialism in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Hamiltonian and Statistical Mechanics, Perturbation Theory, Integrable Systems, Numerical Methods for ODES and PDES and Mathematical Modelling of Complex Systems.

Sandro Mattarei: I am a Visiting Senior Fellow in Algebra at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK, where I was a Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics and Physics since 2015 until 2023, when I took up an Associate Professor position at University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy).

After graduating from the University of Trento in 1988, I earned my PhD in 1992 from the University of Warwick. I then worked as a lecturer at the University of Padova (Italy) from 1994 to 1998, and as an associate professor at the University of Trento (Italy) from 1998 to 2015.

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Anitha Thillaisundaram: I am a Visiting Senior Fellow in Algebra at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK, where I was a Lecturer in Pure Mathematics from Septemeber 2016 until September 2021, when I took up the post of Senior Lecturer at Lund University (Sweden).

I graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2008, and then obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2011. In 2011-13 I worked in post-doctoral positions in Germany, Brazil, and India. In 2013-16 I was an Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiat at University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Valentina Iusa: I was a PhD Student in Pure Mathematics at the School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Lincoln, UK, and I got my PhD in group theory in 2019 in Lincoln; I continue research collaboration with mathematicians in Lincoln.

I was born in L’Aquila (Italy), where I also spent the first three years of my undergraduate studies at University of L’Aquila. I graduated from University of Trento, Italy, in 2015.