Four New Appointments in Mathematics
Monday 23 January 2012
We are delighted to announce the appointment of four new members of staff in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Surrey:
Carina Dunlop joined the Department as a lecturer in January 2012 having previously held postdoctoral fellowships in Oxford and Heidelberg. Her research area is the mathematical modelling of biological systems and, in particular, the question of how biomechanical interactions across multiple length and time scales determine tissue structure and function.
Konstadinos Sfetsos will take up a professorship in the Department in May 2012. He comes to Surrey from the University of Patras to lead a new group in Mathematical Physics. The research interests of Kostas focus on theoretical and mathematical aspects of quantum field and string theories, including string/gauge theory correspondence, stringy description of spacetime, supergravities, black-hole physics and cosmology, conformal field theory and integrable systems.
Jock McOrist will come to the Department as a lecturer in Summer 2012 from a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge. His research area is mathematical physics and especially the interplay between geometry, string theory and quantum field theory.
Sara Pasquetti will join the Department as a lecturer in September 2012 after having held postdoctoral fellowships at CERN and Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests cover gauge theories, gauge/string dualities, topological strings, matrix models, conformal field theories and Gromov–Witten Theory.