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February 2025
Mathematical model for understanding the emergence of new ideas
10 February 2025Creativity and the discovery of new ideas and concepts are fascinating and mysterious processes. To shed light on the mechanisms behind them, mathematicians study such exploration processes as time-ordered sequences of events, like the songs listened to by an individual or the titles of scientific publications. A "discovery" or "novelty" ... [more]
Queen Mary engineer awarded prestigious Foresight Fellowship to drive space technology innovation
Faculty of Science and Engineering
3 February 2025Dr Angadh Nanjangud, Lecturer in Spacecraft Engineering at Queen Mary's School of Engineering and Materials Science, has been selected as a Foresight Fellow in the space technology track. The fellowship, awarded by the Foresight Institute - a pioneering organisation founded in 1986 to advance beneficial high-impact technologies - recognises emerging leaders ... [more]
January 2025
UKRI grant for stabilizing South Africa's power grid awarded to international research team led by Christian Beck
28 January 2025The Science and Technology Facilities Council of UKRI has awarded a £499,258 research grant for a statistical physics-based analysis of the South African power grid to Christian Beck, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of the Centre for Complex Systems at QMUL, and his three co-investigators Chantelle Van Staden, Cristina Trois (... [more]
New Royal Society URF awardee to lead exoplanet research project
Faculty of Science and Engineering
27 January 2025Dr Andrew Winter has been awarded £1.8 million grant from the Royal Society's University Research Fellowship (URF) programme. He will join Queen Mary's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences in April and lead a groundbreaking project investigating the influence of neighbouring stars on planetary system formation. "The observed exoplanet population is ... [more]