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CMAI Seminar: Zhaokai Wang

C4DM Seminar: Zhaokai Wang: From Frames to Beats: Progress and Challenges in Video-to-Music Generation QMUL, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Centre for Digital Music Seminar Series Seminar by: Zhaokai Wang Date/time: Friday, 23th Jan 2026, 2 pm Location: GC222, Graduate Centre, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of ... [more]

Reimagining music videos with AI: CMAI research breaks new ground

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]

New study proposes an information theory framework for mining higher-order triadic interactions in complex biological systems

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]

Building the European Heliophysics Community

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]

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UK Annual Bioenergetics Conference

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]

Professor Federico Ardila joining QMUL in January 2026

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]

Probabilistic modelling enables an experimental method in a study of how bacteria exchange DNA, published in PNAS

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]

Evidence for a new Higgs boson decay

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 Arumugam Nallanathan among the world's most highly cited researchers for 2025.

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]

Two-day workshop in "Geometric Methods in Probability"

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]

Dr. Nicolás Hernández awarded LMS Grant to establish a UK Functional Data Analysis group

Dr. Nicolás Hernández, Lecturer in Statistics at our Centre, has been awarded a Scheme 3 grant by the London Mathematical Society. The grant will support the creation of a new Joint Research Group focused on "Statistical Modelling and Inference for Functional Data Analysis". Functional Data Analysis is a rapidly ... [more]

QMUL Scientists Uncover Shape-Proof Pathway to Exotic Electrical Behaviour

Researchers at the Centre for Electronics at Queen Mary University of London have reported a fresh theoretical result that settles a long-standing question in materials physics. Their new study shows that a key set of calculations used to test whether a crystal could exhibit negative static electric susceptibility remains stable ... [more]

Adrian Baule wins EPSRC funding to investigate theoretical foundations of AI media generators

The UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (EPSRC) has awarded an £84,036 research grant for exploring Metastability in generative diffusion models to Adrian Baule, Reader in Applied Mathematics in the Centre for Complex Systems. The project will target the foundations of AI image, audio, and video generators such as DALL-E, Stable ... [more]

'Project Psyche' aims to sequence the genomes of all 11,665 European butterfly and moth species

A team from Queen Mary University of London - School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences has been taking part in a global project that aims to sequence the genomes of all 11,665 European butterfly and moth species. 'Project Psyche' involves researchers, taxonomists, policymakers and citizen scientists from all over the world, ... [more]

Meet one of our PhD students: Daniel Gill

To celebrate Disabilty History Month we introduce one of our PhD students: Daniel Gill. "I am a PhD Student primarily based in the Cognitive Science Research Group within the School of Electronical Engineering and Computer Science, though I am also associated with the Centre for Brain and Behaviour. My own ... [more]

Queen Mary launches world's first masters degree in organ-on-a-chip technology

Queen Mary is proud to launch a new specialist bioengineering programme, MSc Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies, now open for September 2026 applications. Delivered within the renowned Centre for Predictive In Vitro Models, the course provides advanced training in next-generation organ-on-a-chip, tissue engineering and in vitro technologies. Following the Government's recently announced strategy to ... [more]

Meet the PhD graduates of our Centre

Our Centre currently hosts a vibrant community of young researchers with 23 PhD students working under the supervision of the Centre's academics. But what career paths do our PhD students follow after graduation? In this page, you can find information about our recent PhD graduates, including the topic of their theses, ... [more]

Queen Mary team qualify an organ-chip model of breast cancer metastasis using a multi-omics approach

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed and rigorously qualified a new organ-on-a-chip model that replicates the early stages of breast cancer bone metastasis, offering a promising alternative to animal studies. The microfluidic system brings together osteocytes, osteoclasts and breast cancer cells in a dynamic tri-culture, but its ... [more]

Musician Will Young visits Queen Mary to explore alternatives to Animal Testing

A group of high-profile guests visited Queen Mary's Centre for Predictive In Vitro Models on Tuesday 11th November, to explore the university's cutting-edge organ-on-a-chip facilities. The delegation included musician and animal advocate Will Young, a Director and Toxicologist from Lush cosmetics, and representatives from the charity Animal Aid. The group ... [more]