Postdoctoral Research Associate
space plasma physics, space physics, heliophysics, space weather, machine learning
A new study published in Science Advances presents a major step forward in the development of quantum algorithms that are more accurate, more efficient, and better suited to the capabilities of early quantum computers. The research from Queen Mary University of London focuses on improving the way quantum computers calculate ... [more]
Queen Mary University of London is celebrating the success of its spinout company Dragonfly AI, which has secured £5 million in new investment to fuel its next phase of international expansion and product innovation. Dragonfly AI, co-founded by Dr Hamit Soyel, Chief Scientist and inventor of the underlying technology, has rapidly ... [more]
Emily Bates was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at the age of 34. In a recent Nature Outlook programme, Ms Bates reflects on how her symptoms were easy to miss earlier in life - from appearing like a "model student" at school to coping by leaving work until the very ... [more]
Researchers in the Astronomy Unit (AU), in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary, have been awarded a total of £1.5 million from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to fund 3 research projects over the next 3 years. The research grants cover Queen Mary's internationally leading research in ... [more]
The Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability recently uncovered a global ecological paradox. While it is widely expected that accelerating climate change will speed up nature's pace—forcing species to replace each other more rapidly—we found the exact opposite. By analyzing a century of data across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ... [more]
The Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy at the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences is delighted to announce that Queen Mary University of London will host Amplitudes 2026, the international conference on scattering amplitudes, from 29 June to 3 July 2026. Amplitudes is an annual international conference series focused on scattering amplitudes in ... [more]
Many congratultons to Claudia Garetto who has been awarded the 2026 Suffrage Science Award for Maths and Computing, a prestigious peer-to-peer award recognising outstanding women in science for both research excellence and their commitment to inspiring others. The Suffrage Science Awards are unique in their format and ethos: each recipient nominates ... [more]
A 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]
Congratulations to Masanori Hanada: his paper "Creating and probing the Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev model with ultracold gases: Towards experimental studies of quantum gravity", published in the Journal "Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics" won an Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan. Only five papers have been selected ... [more]
I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Centre for Brain and Behaviour, where I study how humans perceive voices. Human voices don't just tell us what someone is saying, voices also convey a lot of information about a speaker's intentions, feelings, and attitudes. Crucially, voices also help us ... [more]
Yinghao Ma, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Multimodal AI at Queen Mary University of London, has helped develop AutoMV, the first open-source AI system capable of generating complete music videos directly from full-length songs. Music-to-video generation remains a major challenge for generative AI. While recent video models can ... [more]
Triadic 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]
Heliophysics is a broad discipline studying the Sun, its sphere of influence, and how it affects the bodies in the solar system – our space environment. Heliophysics is inherently cross-disciplinary, and includes components of solar physics, space plasma physics, ionosphere-thermosphere physics, magnetospheric physics, planetary physics, small body physics, and space weather. ... [more]
Location: Arts 2 Lecture Hall and Foyer Join us for the UK Christmas Bioenergetics Meeting on 15th December! Plenary Lecture: Redox Regulation of Photosynthetic Electron Transport by Anja Krieger (CEA, Sacley, France). Have a look at the preliminary programme to find out more. As usual, there is no registration fee. The ... [more]
Prof. Federico Ardila will be joining the School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL in January 2026 as part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering Talent scheme. Ardila is a Colombian mathematician whose work in matroid theory lies at the intersection of combinatorics with geometry, algebra, topology, and applications. Apart from his ... [more]
As part of a team of collaborators, Dr. Natasha Blitvic recently published an article at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America entitled "Fluid flow generates bacterial conjugation hot spots by increasing the rate of shear-driven cell–cell encounters". The study uses probabilistic ... [more]
Physicists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), together with international collaborators, have found evidence of the decay of Higgs bosons to muons. Muons are particles typically found in cosmic rays and have a low mass, and because of this the Standard Model of particle physics predicts that this decay ... [more]
Professor Nallanathan has been named a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science for the fourth consecutive year. He is one of just 119 researchers recognised globally in this field, and one of only 12 listed from the UK. Congratulations to Professor Arumugam Nallanathan, founding head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) Group ... [more]
Our centre members Dr. Amaranta Membrillo Solis and Prof. John Moriarty are co-organising a two-day workshop in the School of Mathematical Sciences on the 12th and 13th January, titled "Geometric Methods in Probability". The first event on Monday 12th January will consist of a London Probability Day (LPD), an one-day ... [more]
