Dr Tom Maulin-Sapey is a new Lecturer in Statistics. Before coming to Bristol, Tom was a postdoctoral researcher in fMRI Statistics at the Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. His research interests include distributed machine learning, spatial statistics, linear mixed models, and random field theory. He was awarded his doctoral degree by the University of Oxford for work on neuroimaging methods.

Dr Emma Bailey has just joined the Mathematical Physics group as lecturer, after finishing postdocs in the US (an MRSI – now Simons-Laufer – programme in Berkeley followed by CUNY in New York).  She likes to think about questions connecting random matrices, number theory, probability, and also enjoys incorporating numerics in to her research.  She did her PhD at Bristol so it’s great to have her back.

The school also welcomes lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Dr Rodolfo Brandão, who completed his undergraduate and master's degrees in Recife, one of the largest cities in Brazil's Northeast. He then moved to the UK for a PhD at Imperial College and later did a postdoc at Princeton University in the US. He is broadly interested in fluid dynamics, from acoustics to viscous flows and has more recently been trying to understand how small and deformable structures behave in fluids.

A warm welcome to Tom, Emma and Rodolfo.