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November 2025
Meet one of our PhD students: Daniel Gill
Faculty of Science and Engineering
30 November 2025To 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]
Musician Will Young visits Queen Mary to explore alternatives to Animal Testing
19 November 2025A 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]
Queen Mary Bioengineers provides expert comment on new Government strategy
12 November 2025Bioengineers at Queen Mary University of London, have provided expert comment to the BBC about the new alternatives strategy launched today (11 November) by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Watch Queen Mary experts speak to the BBC about the Government's new alternatives strategy on 11 November from 6.10am. This new ... [more]
Research work in the Centre for Brain and Behaviour explores the pathways from neurodivergent traits to mental health outcomes.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
9 November 2025To mark UK Disability History Month, which runs from November 20 to December 20, we showcase the research of Giorgia Michelini, a senior lecturer in the Centre for Brain and Behaviour. Dr Michelini leads research on the lived experience of neurodivergent adolescents and young adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds, in collaboration with ... [more]
October 2025
From biodiversity to artificial intelligence
Faculty of Science and Engineering
16 October 2025We showcase the research work of Kabiru Abubakari, a PhD student in the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science, and the research work of Dr David Mguni, a lecturer in the Centre for Multimodal AI. Kabiru Abubakari Kabiru's research focuses on Bayesian spatial modelling for biodiversity. His PhD project ... [more]
Dr Christopher Chen appointed as a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Centre for Fundamental Physics
10 October 2025We are delighted to announce that Dr Christopher Chen, Reader in Space Plasma Physics in the Astronomy Unit of the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, has been made a Fellow of the American Physical Society. This prestigious honour recognises Dr Chen's "…outstanding use of in-situ solar-wind spacecraft observations to ... [more]
Queen Mary hosts the UK Organ-on-a-chip Symposium
1 October 2025Queen Mary's Centre for Predictive in vitro Models hosted a fastic afternoon of science and bioengineering at the UK organ-on-a-chip Annual Symposium. The event was attended by nearly 300 people, including 100 online, with representatives from academia, industry, Government, charities and other stakeholders. There were flash talks from four talented Early Career ... [more]
September 2025
Weini Huang invited to give the prestigious 2025 LMS Mary Cartwright lecture
Faculty of Science and Engineering
29 September 2025Dr Weini Huang, a reader in the Centre for Complex Systems, will be the 2025 LMS Mary Cartwright lecturer. The Mary Cartwright Lecture is an annual event organised by the London Mathematical Society to celebrate the achievements of distinguished women mathematicians The event was established by the LMS in 2000 and is ... [more]
EPSRC Grant Success: "Zeros, Algorithms, and Correlation for Graph Polynomials" led by Viresh Patel
Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory
16 September 2025An EPSRC standard grant has been awarded to Viresh Patel (Project Lead) and Mark Jerrum (Project Co-lead) for the project "Zeros, Algorithms, and Correlation for Graph Polynomials". Read on to find out more about their plans. This project is at the interface of theoretical computer science, mathematics and statistical physics. ... [more]
Animals in Science Committee visit to Queen Mary
9 September 2025We were delighted to host a visit from the UK Government's Animals in Science Committee and the associated policy unit at the Home Office. The group visited the Queen Mary in vitro models facilities, part of the Centre for Predictive in vitro Models, where we were able to demonstrate some ... [more]
August 2025
Prestigious Simons Foundation grant awarded to Dr Katy Clough for black hole research
Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation
12 August 2025Dr Katy Clough has been named Principal Investigator (PI) in the newly established $8-million Simons Collaboration on Black Holes and Strong Gravity. This highly competitive grant will bring together 12 co-PIs from institutions worldwide, alongside a wider network of experts, to develop a robust theoretical framework for deciphering secrets encoded in ... [more]
July 2025
Queen Mary researchers awarded MRC funding to develop human tendon-on-a-chip technology
11 July 2025Queen Mary University of London has secured funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to launch a pioneering research project aiming to transform the understanding and treatment of tendinopathy—a painful and often chronic tendon condition affecting millions worldwide. The three-year project, Human Tendon-CHIP, will combine cutting-edge bioengineering, materials science ... [more]
Queen Mary Professor secures £1.2 million British Heart Foundation programme grant
10 July 2025Professor Thomas Iskratsch, Professor in Cardiovascular Mechanobiology and Bioengineering, has been awarded a highly coveted Programme Grant of £1.2 million from the British Heart Foundation (BHF). This significant funding will support groundbreaking research into how mechanical forces contribute to cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Professor Iskratsch's research aims ... [more]
June 2025
UK Ash Trees Evolve to Resist Dieback
Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability
27 June 2025Research (published in Science) led by Profs Richard Nichols and Richard Buggs has uncovered early-stage signs of natural resistance to ash dieback—a fungal disease expected to kill half of the UK's 80 million ash trees. By comparing the DNA of older trees, present before the fungus arrived in 2012, with younger ... [more]
Prestigious Network Science Award for a former PhD student in the School of Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Science and Engineering
19 June 2025Federico Battiston, currently an Associate Professor in Network Science at the Central European University, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Erdős-Rényi Prize. The Erdős–Rényi Prize is awarded each year to a selected young scientist (under 40 years old on the day of the nomination deadline) for their ... [more]
Queen Mary presence at the International Meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) in China
Faculty of Science and Engineering
10 June 2025The project on diversifying the curriculum in SBBS has been presented at this year international meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) in China. Matteo Fumagalli, who co-leads the project together with Sally Faulkner, has also taken part in a roundtable on inclusion, equality and diversity in ... [more]
May 2025
Dr Florian Koller Awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to work in the QMUL Astronomy Unit
Centre for Fundamental Physics
30 May 2025QMUL Astronomy Unit member Dr Florian Koller has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue working in the AU's space plasma group. Dr Florian Koller, a current postdoctoral researcher in the Astronomy Unit of Queen Mary University of London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been ... [more]
Professor Ginestra Bianconi wins Euler Award for pioneering work in Network Theory
8 May 2025Professor Ginestra Bianconi from the School of Mathematical Sciences has been awarded the 2025 Euler Award by the Network Science Society. This esteemed award recognises Professor Bianconi's groundbreaking contributions to the field of network theory. The Network Science Society cited Professor Bianconi "For pioneering contributions to the theory of generalised networks, ... [more]
April 2025
A vast molecular cloud, long invisible, is discovered near the solar system
Centre for Fundamental Physics
28 April 2025An international team, including members from the QMUL Astronomy Unit, uncovers a hidden celestial structure using innovative far-ultraviolet techniques. An international team of scientists, led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist and including Dr Thomas Haworth of Queen Mary University of London, has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is ... [more]
Queen Mary particle physicists lead pioneering study of high-mass W-bosons at CERN
Centre for Fundamental Physics
25 April 2025Particle physicists at Queen Mary have used data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to help measure a key elementary particle, known as the W-boson, in mass regions never explored before. Their work explores previously uncharted mass regions, offering fresh clues about the forces that shape our universe. The ... [more]
Queen Mary Physicists Share 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Physics
Centre for Fundamental Physics
12 April 2025Physicists at Queen Mary University of London are celebrating this week after being named among the winners of the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The award honours the global scientific collaborations behind the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland – the ... [more]
March 2025
Professor Giulia De Falco appointed to WHO Committee on tumour classification
Faculty of Science and Engineering
19 March 2025Professor Giulia De Falco, Professor in Pathology and Molecular Clinical Microbiology in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, has been appointed to a prestigious international subcommittee of the World Health Organization (WHO). This committee plays a crucial role in updating the WHO's classification of tumours, ensuring that diagnostic guidelines ... [more]
New steps for Open Science actions at Queen Mary University of London, including the official support to the Peer Community In Initiative
Faculty of Science and Engineering
5 March 2025Queen Mary University of London is delighted to announce its official support for the Peer Community In (PCI) initiative. This marks a pivotal moment in advancing ethical, transparent, and accessible research practices. Championed by the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences (SBBS) and the Library Services, this initiative underscores Queen ... [more]
The art of well-being: group activities shown to ease depression and anxiety in older adults
Centre for Brain and Behaviour
5 March 2025A new study led by Queen Mary University of London researchers, reveals that group arts interventions – such as painting, music, or dance – can significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety among older adults. The findings, published in Nature Mental Health, offer a compelling case for the benefits of shared creative ... [more]
The quest for room-temperature superconductors
Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics
5 March 2025In a new development that could help redefine the future of technology, a team of physicists has uncovered a fundamental insight into the upper limit of superconducting temperature. This discovery, accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, suggests that room-temperature superconductivity – long considered the "holy grail" of condensed ... [more]
Gravity from entropy: A radical new approach to unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity
4 March 2025In a new study published in Physical Review D, Professor Ginestra Bianconi, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, proposes a groundbreaking new framework that could revolutionise our understanding of gravity and its relationship with quantum mechanics. The study, titled Gravity from Entropy, introduces a novel approach ... [more]
February 2025
Queen Mary University of London opens one of Europe's largest organ-on-a-chip facilities
25 February 2025Queen Mary University of London has officially opened one of Europe's largest and most advanced organ-on-a-chip facilities, marking a significant milestone in the efforts to replace animal testing in scientific research. The state-of-the-art facility, supported by major funding from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals ... [more]
A Night of Science and Engineering: exploring Tomorrow's World at Queen Mary
Faculty of Science and Engineering
24 February 2025Queen Mary University of London's third annual Night of Science and Engineering brought together leading industry partners, researchers, academics, policymakers, and the public for an evening of discovery, innovation, and collaboration. Held in the historic Octagon venue on 20 Feb, this year's event, themed 'Tomorrow's World', showcased groundbreaking research that is ... [more]
Groundbreaking study reveals how topology drives complexity in brain, climate and AI
24 February 2025A new study led by Professor Ginestra Bianconi from Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with international researchers, has unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex systems. Published in Nature Physics, this pioneering study establishes the new field of higher-order topological dynamics, revealing how the hidden topology of networks ... [more]
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
Centre for Intelligent Transport
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
Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics
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]
New study furthers our understanding about the origins of energetic cosmic particles in the universe
Centre for Fundamental Physics
13 January 2025A new study, published today in Nature Communications by a team including members from the QMUL Astronomy Unit, has shed new light on how shock waves throughout the Universe can accelerate electrons to high energies. Cosmic ray particles are ultra-relativistic particles traveling near the speed of light, permeating the universe. ... [more]