Dr. David Cole obtained his PhD from the University of Leicester in 2012 after a career in high technology where he worked for a number of technology start-ups and software engineering companies. Since then he has carried out research on the nature of dark matter and the formation of galaxies at the University of Central Lancashire and most recently at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics where he worked on developing dynamical models of our Galaxy to compare to observations made by the space telescope Gaia. He has taught physics at undergraduate level at all the instututions he has worked at and developed and delivered a new maths lecture course at the University of Central Lancashire.

Mallika is an independent technical consultant and leadership coach and the founder and Managing Director of CAMI Consultancy, an advanced material innovation company. She has a broad range of skills and competencies and has won a number of awards in her field. During two decades of her career, Mallika has worked as a successful educator, a scientist with a proven track record of innovation in product and process developments, an empathetic, inspirational team leader.

Andrew has previously worked as a software engineer at ONI, and a coder at TPP. Specialising in biophysics, his academic research has involved computational modelling of shock tubes, studies of filamentous influenza, machine learning to detect viruses, simulations of virus epidemics, computational simulations of fluorescence microscopy. Andrew’s currently at the University of Oxford, researching using physics techniques and methods on viruses—specifically SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.

Matteo is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at St Peter’s, Oxford alongside his DPhil at the Maths Institute. Before moving to Oxford. As a mathematical physicist, he studies novel geometrisation of the scattering and interaction of fundamental particles. I am a DPhil Representative and member of the Outreach Programme in the Mathematical Institute, a member of the London Mathematical Society, as well as the Worcester College MCR LGBTQ+ and Charity Representative.