The College warmly congratulates Fellow in Mathematics Prof José A. Carrillo de la Plata who is one of 12 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.
Dame Alison Etheridge, founding President of the Academy and Professor of Probability at Oxford’s Department of Statistics, said:
I’m delighted to welcome our inaugural Fellows – individuals of exceptional distinction who collectively advance the mathematical sciences through discovery, leadership, education’ and real-world application.
Prof Carrillo, who is Professor of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations at the Mathematical Institute and Tutorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics at Queen’s, said:
It is a great honour and a deep sense of responsibility to represent the breadth, depth, and vitality of the mathematical sciences in the United Kingdom.
