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  • Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

    Meet Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb!

    31 October, 2025

    One of our favourite colleagues here at the University of Cambridge is Professor of Applied Mathematics Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb. We have had the pleasure to work with her quite a bit over the last few years.

    Back in 2017 Carola won a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize and now she's part of the EXPeditions Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection which showcases conversations with winners of the prize. Thanks to EXPeditions and the Leverhulme Trust, we're proud to bring you some lovely videos they have produced, featuring Carola talking about various aspects of her work. You can see these below. We have also included links to relevant content here on Plus.

    We start off with a short clip of Carola giving advice to those interested in a career in maths, especially women: "It's important to celebrate the take you have on a particular subject and to make it your own".

    Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb. Video courtesy of EXPeditions and The Leverhulme Trust.

    Image processing and the beauty of mathematics

    Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb. Video courtesy of EXPeditions and The Leverhulme Trust.

    Maths in a minute: Differential equations

    Change is the only constant in our lives — which is why differential equations are so useful.

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    Maths in a minute: Diffusion

    Whenever you smell the lovely smell of fresh coffee or drop a tea bag into hot water you're benefiting from diffusion. Find a quick introduction to the concept here.

    What the eye can't see

    From cancer treatments to counting trees: Carola helps us explain what image analysis can do.

    Understanding the diversity of forests using AI

    Carola and her team explain how combining image analysis with AI can help assess the diversity of forests.

    Seeing traffic through new eyes

    Carola and her team explain how image analysis combined with AI can also improve traffic, protecting the environment and human health.

    Mathematical imaging and deep learning

    Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb. Video courtesy of EXPeditions and The Leverhulme Trust.

    Maths in a minute: Machine learning and neural networks

    Machine learning makes many daily activities possible, but how does it work?
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    Maths in a minute: Deep learning

    Take a dive into deep learning - a spectacularly successful development in artificial intelligence!

    Maths in a minute: Inverse problems

    Inverse problems are mathematical detective problems. They can help solve crimes, are used in medical imaging, and much more.
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    Opening the black box

    Carola explains why we need to know more about the maths behind machine learning and deep neural networks.

    New artificial intelligence tool for diagnosing Alzheimer's

    This article looks at a new AI framework, being developed by Carola and her team, to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease early.

    Revolutionising the power of blood tests using AI

    Another project of Carola's, BloodCounts, is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.

    Mathematics in art

    Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb. Video courtesy of EXPeditions and The Leverhulme Trust.

    Restoring profanity

    In this article Carola Schönlieb explores how mathematicians use the heat equation to restore damaged art works.

    Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb does amazing work on the mathematics of information. Find out more in these lovely videos featuring Carola!

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