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St Hugh’s Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Finance elected Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

Congratulations to St Hugh’s Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Finance and Chair of Mathematical Finance at Oxford University, Professor Rama Cont, who has been elected a Founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci). The Academy brings together the UK’s strongest mathematical scientists across academia, education, business, industry, and government to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges.

Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences are recognised for being leaders in their fields, through fundamental discoveries, exceptional work in education, or driving the application of mathematics across society as part of our critical national infrastructure.

Working across focused committees, the Fellows will contribute to projects of national importance -such as strengthening maths education in the UK, supporting responsible AI, addressing the UK’s leaky mathematical talent pipeline, and leveraging the mathematical sciences to tackle climate change – for the benefit of the whole UK.

Professor Cont said: ‘The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences’ ambitions are to represent and promote the full spectrum of mathematical sciences and their applications. As a mathematician with research activities spanning theory and applications, I am delighted to join the Academy as a Fellow.’

Professor Cont is Head of the Oxford Mathematical and Computational Finance Group.

He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and Director of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Systemic Resilience.

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