News
September 2026
Study by Anna Maltsev and collaborators on the cover of Circulation Research
8 September 2026A recent article by Anna Maltsev, Reader in Applied Probability in the Centre for Complex Systems, and colleagues at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore (Maryland, USA) was featured on the cover of Circulation Research. Circulation Research is a prestigious medical journal published by the American Heart Association, covering ... [more]
August 2026
What is the two-dimensional shadow of a four-dimensional fractal?
20 August 2026Ian Morris, Reader in Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems, and Çağrı Sert from the University of Warwick, have found a remarkable generalisation of a landmark result about self-affine fractals to their projections or "shadows". Their study, entitled Projections of self-affine fractals, was published in the highly prestigious ... [more]
Professor Ginestra Bianconi awarded John Templeton Foundation grant to advance the Gravity from Entropy theory
6 August 2026Professor Ginestra Bianconi, Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems, has been awarded a three-year, £323,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation to develop Gravity from Entropy. This new theoretical framework seeks to uncover the microscopic nature of gravity and bridge the long-standing divide between general relativity and ... [more]
June 2026
Summer research internships for undergraduate students
Faculty of Science and Engineering
13 June 2026Ten talented undergraduate students from across a wide range of Science and Engineering programmes are embarking on exciting summer research internships under the mentorship of academic supervisors. This fantastic opportunity has been made possible through the QMUL Summer Training Research Initiative to Support Diversity and Equality (STRIDE) and the London ... [more]
Impactful foundational work on network dynamics highlighted in Physical Review E
9 June 2026A work from 2004 by Vito Latora, Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems, and two co-authors has been selected for a collection of highly influential papers on statistical and nonlinear physics published in Physical Review E (PRE). The selection identifies 35 works from the journal's 33-year history that ... [more]
May 2026
12 May: International Women in Mathematics Day
Faculty of Science and Engineering
11 May 2026International Women in Mathematics Day is celebrated on 12 May, marking the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the Fields Medal in 2014. Born in Iran, Mirzakhani made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics before her life was cut short at a young age. Her legacy continues to inspire women and ... [more]
Three centre members in top 100 UK researchers rankings
11 May 2026Three researchers of the Centre for Complex Systems (CCS) have been ranked among the Top 100 UK Scientists in their respective disciplines by Research.com in its 2026 evaluation. The assessment is based on bibliometric data and impact measures. Christian Beck, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of the CCS, was ranked 64... [more]
Prestigious ecology prize awarded to former Queen Mary postdoc
1 May 2026Benjamin Schäfer, who was a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Complex Systems between 2019 and 2021 working with Professor Christian Beck, will receive the prestigious 2026 Ecology Prize of the Viktor & Sigrid Dulger Foundation, awarded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The prize recognises outstanding achievements by young researchers ... [more]
March 2026
Resolution of long-standing conjecture about dynamical systems published in Inventiones Mathematicae
11 March 2026A team of researchers including Oliver Jenkinson, Professor of Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems, has recently published a breakthrough study in the highly renowned journal Inventiones Mathematicae. The paper, entitled Typical periodic optimization for dynamical systems: symbolic dynamics by Wen Huang, Oliver Jenkinson, Leiye Xu and Yiwei Zhang, ... [more]
January 2026
ISPF grant funding for an international and interdisciplinary research project on air pollution dynamics
26 January 2026A group of researchers from QMUL's Centre for Complex Systems (CCS, School of Mathematical Sciences) and the Centre for Genomics and Child Health (CGCH, Blizard Institute) have received £25,000 from UKRI Research England (internally administered by QMUL) for an interdisciplinary project on the dynamics of air pollution through the International Science ... [more]
New study proposes an information theory framework for mining higher-order triadic interactions in complex biological systems
5 January 2026Triadic interactions—higher-order interactions in which one node regulates the interaction between two others—are widespread in complex systems, from gene-regulatory and metabolic networks to neuroscience and climate. For example, the presence or absence of an enzyme can affect the reactivity between two chemicals. Likewise, in the brain, glia cells ... [more]