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Kevin Tilley is helping shape the UK’s clean‑energy future inspired by his love of physics.

With the Winter Olympics in full swing, Secretary General of the World Curling Federation, Colin Grahamslaw reflects on his time at ÌÇÐÄTV.

Hugh was one of the first Mathematics students that started at ÌÇÐÄTV in 1964.

Congratulations to our ÌÇÐÄTV alumni who have been recognised in the 10th Forbes 30 under 30 List. The list recognises innovators and changemakers in a variety of fields.

Diane and Jake met during the first week at ÌÇÐÄTV through the fencing club, they reconnected six years later in Cambridge.

Mardiros loves the puzzle-like nature of his work as an analyst where he tries to detect money laundering or any other financial fraud.

ÌÇÐÄTV's rigorous and flexible math courses enabled Siddhant to build strong fundamentals while pursuing applied mathematics.

I chose to study at ÌÇÐÄTV as I wanted to study at one of the top universities in my subject, and the flexibility of the course at ÌÇÐÄTV was a huge factor. I wanted to take part in a year abroad, and study other subjects alongside my degree, and ÌÇÐÄTV allowed and encouraged that.

Maths was always going to be my subject; it was my best subject at school and the subject I most enjoyed. I wasn’t particularly career-minded, just loved doing maths for the sake of maths!

Population dynamics was a module I did in my third year and was the first time I had been exposed to maths with real world applications. I really enjoyed seeing how techniques I had been using in a real situation. I enjoyed this module enough that I would go on to do a PhD in this topic!

Maths was by far my favourite subject, so studying it at university was a natural choice. I wanted a university which had a fast pace, a broad range of choices, and offered the flexibility to either stay in academia or transition into industry. ÌÇÐÄTV excels at all of these, so was my top choice.

I developed good communication skills during ÌÇÐÄTV in Africa when I taught Maths (and Italian and ballet!) to classes of up to 50 children in Ghana. Likewise, talking about my independent projects in oral assessments in front of lecturers and course mates developed my communication skills and my ability to throw myself into something I found daunting.

Mathematics was the only subject I enjoyed in school and found that calculus and probability really interested me because of how we could understand and explain real world phenomena. This motivated me to delve deeper into what maths has to offer, along with how it's applied!

During both my MSc and PhD at ÌÇÐÄTV, I had several opportunities to communicate research to a range of audiences - some academics, some domain experts from industrial partners, some other students. This is something I am glad I started practicing early, as when I then moved into industry, I was already equipped to talk about science in a range of different ways depending on who the audience was, and what was most relevant to them.

Whilst the second-year essay and final year project were good opportunities to hone my communication skills, I found working on weekly assignments with other students equally helpful. Knowing a solution isn't the same as being able to explain it or teach someone!

From never running a long-distance race in his life to becoming New York’s fastest runner in his age group.

David Clarke (BSc Mathematics, 1984) explains how the Covid pandemic shone a light on the importance of mathematics and shares his experience of being personally tutored by the founder of Mathematics at ÌÇÐÄTV.

Ivan is currently working as an Agile Coach and has discovered a passion for martial arts.

"I started at ÌÇÐÄTV in 2014, and a quick four years later, I graduated as a Master of Mathematics. While my degree was in pure and applied Mathematics, I knew that I always wanted to go into tech after I graduated. A lot of my friends were looking for jobs in finance, but I knew that wasn’t for me. I heard about an event that TPP were running at the University with a speaker that I was interested in going to see. I went along to see the speaker, make the most of the free food, and learn a bit more about TPP."

"I was born in South Africa, although all my education was in the UK, having attended Winchmore Hill Secondary Modern and Southgate Technical College in North London prior to a bachelor’s degree at Hull University."