Prospective students, interns and postdocs: please read before contacting me
I am always interested in hearing from candidates with a keen and demonstrable interest in applied and computational mathematics, understood in a broad sense. That said, I receive a large number of enquiries, many of them generic messages that could have been sent to anyone, and I am not able to answer them individually. Please read the information below before getting in touch.
Internships. I do not offer internships or summer placements. The only exception is a research visit arranged directly with me by a collaborator I know.
PhD positions. In practice, all my students hold a BSc or MSc in mathematics. This matters for our day-to-day communication and for the research itself. It is not about gatekeeping, but about whether I am the right person to supervise you. Exceptional candidates with engineering degrees can be considered for multidisciplinary projects, which I advertise separately.
If you would like to do a PhD under my supervision, please apply through the Department of Mathematics’ regular admissions process, or check the CCMI and MFC CDT programmes to see whether I am currently offering a project. Suitable candidates will be invited to an interview, where we can discuss research directions in detail. I do not hold discussions with applicants before that stage.
Funded PhD places for international students are extremely competitive at Imperial, and I would rather not raise expectations unless there is a reasonable chance of funding. The President’s PhD Scholarship is only considered once a candidate has applied and received an offer from the Department, not before.
Postdoctoral positions. I do not currently have any open postdoctoral positions. If you are applying for a Chapman Fellowship or another Imperial postdoctoral scheme, you are welcome to name me as your intended mentor. Please send me a short note to let me know before you do so, but I will not be able to discuss your application in advance.
If you do write to me. Keep it short. A long, hyperbolic, LLM-generated essay is not necessary. Please do not send last-minute requests for sponsorship or support letters ahead of a deadline.
I assume that anyone interested in working with me has read this page before writing, so I will not reply to enquiries covered above. Being able to read and follow these instructions is a skill I value very highly :)