Every year, G-Research runs a number of different PhD prizes in Maths and Data Science with academic institutions in the UK, Europe and beyond.
Each prize is worth up to £10,000 and is open to final or penultimate year PhD students at specific universities, working across areas including Machine Learning, Quantitative Finance and Mathematics.
We’re pleased to announce the winners of the first prize of 2025, which ran in conjunction with the University of Warwick.
Learn more about our prizes“The thrill of Diophantine Equations – equations to be solved over the ordinary whole numbers – has lured many mathematicians over the past 2,000 years, and I am no exception, having been curious about this topic since long before starting my PhD.
“To be able to contribute even an epsilon to this field is a dream of youth come true. I use mostly analytic techniques to prove and quantify existence of solutions to such equations.”
“I am the principal investigator of the project “Dynamic and Sublinear Algorithms for Local Problems” at the University of Vienna.
“My research focuses on dynamic and sublinear algorithms. Dynamic algorithms maintain solutions to optimisation problems as inputs change. Sublinear algorithms, motivated by the size of real-world datasets, aim to answer queries without scanning all of the input.
“I focus on local problems in these computational models. While hard to formalise, locality roughly means that small changes in input lead to small changes in output.
“My goal is to develop algorithmic techniques that exploit locality to enable efficient solutions in these and related models.”
“My research is in fluid dynamics, at the intersection of applied maths, physics and engineering.
“I recently completed my PhD at the University of Warwick, supervised by Prof. James Sprittles and Prof. Duncan Lockerby.
“When two liquid drops collide, they will either merge together or bounce apart. The problem of understanding when and why this occurs is crucial to understanding raindrop formation and disease transmission. When drops collide, a thin layer of the surrounding air is trapped between them, which can cause the drops to bounce rather than merge. Modelling this trapped air requires physics beyond those of classical fluid dynamics.
“I have used mathematical modelling to predict when these drops will merge. These models are so complex that they must be solved using high performance computing. My modelling shows excellent agreement to experimental results, and I have then made predictions for regimes beyond those that can be accessed experimentally.”
“My research interests centre on the stability of ergodic stochastic processes and their applications in sampling algorithms.
“On the theoretical side, I study questions such as quantifying rates of convergence to stationarity.
“On the applied side, I use probabilistic intuition to guide the selection of optimal methods and the design of novel algorithms.”
This year’s winners have each made outstanding contributions across a wide range of fields, from addressing fundamental problems in probability theory, to developing the novel computational models for raindrop formation. Their work combines exceptional creativity, technical depth and real-world relevance, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in their respective disciplines.”
Every year, G-Research runs a number of different PhD prizes in Maths and Data Science at universities in the UK, Europe and beyond. We're pleased to announce the winners of this prize, run in conjunction with the University of Warwick.
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Every year, G-Research runs a number of different PhD prizes in Maths and Data Science at universities in the UK, Europe and beyond. We're pleased to announce the winners of this prize, run in conjunction with the University of Oxford.
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Every year, G-Research runs a number of different PhD prizes in Maths and Data Science at universities in the UK, Europe and beyond. We're pleased to announce the winners of this prize, run in conjunction with the University of Cambridge.
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