University of Cambridge

Anne-Christine Davis is a professor of theoretical physics whose long career has seen attitudes towards women change for the better. She had to put up with quite a lot at the start.
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb uses mathematics to process and analyse images. She loves the collaborative nature of maths.
Natalia Berloff is a professor of applied mathematics. It was a problem in network theory that lured her into the exciting world of maths when she was ten years old.
One of our favourite problems from our sister site NRICH opens a door to the world of combinatorics and symmetry.
Imagine your weight depended on the colour of your underwear! Something quite similar happens with measurements in quantum physics. Find out more here...
Imagine your weight depended on the colour of your underwear! Something quite similar may be happening when you are measuring things in quantum physics. Find out more here...
Pilot wave theory is an extension of quantum mechanics that doesn't exhibit any of that weird randomness or fuzziness. But that doesn't mean it's totally sane. Here is a quick introduction.
The maths behind music has inspired software that can merge faces.
Taming big data – Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb tells us about a new institute researching the mathematics of information
Frank Kelly talks about his work on networks and how inspiration can strike out of the blue.
From cancer treatments to counting trees: the maths behind image analysis makes it all possible.
Carola tells us about her work in the field of image analysis, her favourite mathematical moments, and why creativity is so important in maths.