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Lion numbers have disappeared from 92% of their historical range. The death of Cecil the lion in 2015 and the resulting global outcry brought this sobering fact into sharp focus.
ERC Consolidator Grants awarded to seven Oxford MPLS Division academics
9 December 2025
Seven academics from the MPLS Division are to lead new research projects supported by European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants. These grants support highly promising mid-career scientists of any nationality and any field with building a research team at an eligible host organisation.
Third cohort of Optiver Foundation Scholars begin their studies in Oxford
3 November 2025
We are delighted to welcome our latest cohort of Optiver Foundation Scholars to Oxford. The programme, now in its third year, has to date awarded 18 scholarships to students from 11 countries and across five continents.
Martingale Foundation expands flagship postgraduate scholarship programme
13 August 2025
The Martingale Foundation has announced a major expansion of its postgraduate scholarship programme for STEM students, with a commitment to support 800 Scholars across its partner universities by the end of the decade.
Oxford sciences at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery
11 June 2025
Researchers from the Department of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Medicine are among the senior principal investigators on a £8 million government-backed consortium creating the world's largest dataset for training machine learning models in drug discovery.
Oxford-led divisional collaboration wins the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
14 April 2025
A collaborative study between the Medical Sciences Division and the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division has been awarded the 2024 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize in Biomedical Science.
New study shows how AI can help prepare the world for the next pandemic
20 February 2025
In a perspective paper published in Nature, scientists across Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe outline for the first time how Artificial Intelligence can transform the landscape of infectious disease research and improve pandemic preparedness.
Professors Christl Donnelly and Alain Goriely Awarded Visiting Miller Professorships at Berkeley
24 January 2025
Professor Christl Donnelly and Professor Alain Goriely have been awarded Visiting Miller Professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, in early 2026.
New Year Honours 2025
31 December 2024
Two academics from MPLS Division have been recognised in the New Year Honours 2025 Lists.
Boost to doctoral training will support leading research in areas of national importance
12 March 2024
The UK’s biggest-ever investment in engineering and physical sciences doctoral skills, totalling more than £1 billion nationwide, has been announced today by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. It includes funding for over 300 fully-funded DPhil studentships at Oxford in strategic research areas.
Department of Statistics granted an Athena Swan Silver Award
14 September 2023
Since 2011 the Department of Statistics has held an Athena Swan Bronze Award. This year, the Department has been awarded Silver, reflecting the collective efforts made over the intervening years to work towards greater gender and intersectional equality.
Professor Frank Windmeijer one of twelve Oxford academics elected 2023 British Academy Fellows
21 July 2023
Professor Windmeijer is Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics. His research interests cover micro-econometrics and causal inference, with strong links to epidemiology and biostatistics.
Alison Etheridge elected member of the National Academy of Sciences
5 May 2023
Professor Alison Etheridge has been elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.
Alison Etheridge and Marta Kwiatkowska elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
21 April 2023
Congratulations to Professor Alison Etheridge (Mathematical Institute and Department of Statistics) and Professor Marta Kwiatkowska (Department of Computer Science, and Associate Head for Finance in the MPLS Divisional Office) who have been elected as International Honorary Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
€2m grant awarded to Oxford researcher for fundamental research in machine learning
10 February 2023
Associate Professor Patrick Rebeschini, in the Department of Statistics, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth €2 million, to develop theoretical foundations that could advance machine learning methods used to analyse Big Data.
Oxford climate research excellence recognised by renewed Met Office partnership
15 December 2022
The University of Oxford has been selected to help deliver the Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) for a further three years, as part of a multi-institutional agreement supporting cutting-edge research in the science of weather and climate prediction.
MPLS students take up Google PhD Fellowships in Engineering and Statistics
14 October 2022
MPLS DPhil candidates Liliane Momeni and Sheheryar Zaidi have taken up prestigious Google PhD Fellowships, each worth $60,000, after been selected from a highly competitive field of applicants last year.
Oxford partners with the Optiver Foundation to launch new international postgraduate scholarship programme for women in STEM
26 August 2022
The partnership aims to increase the number of women from low- and middle-income countries who take up offers to study Master's programmes in MPLS departments, with the first Optiver Foundation Scholars joining in October 2023.
Creating statistical models for infectious diseases is challenging: COVID modeller Professor Christl Donnelly on making a difference
9 August 2022
Christl Donnelly from the Department of Statistics discusses how she came to work in epidemiological modelling for infectious diseases ranging from Ebola to bovine TB, and most recently COVID-19.
MPLS researchers make the Forbes Europe '30 under 30' list
4 May 2022
Four early-career researchers have been recognised by Forbes' 2022 list, which is intended to illustrate the power that young entrepreneurs and leaders have to transform business and society.
Mathematical Sciences for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
18 March 2022
Among the many asylum seekers and academics seeking refuge are mathematicians and statisticians; they are part of the global mathematical sciences community. However, when they come to the UK they may be unable to work and so feel isolated from the subject they love. They are in personal and intellectual limbo. Concerned and inspired by this predicament, a group of mathematicians at Oxford University decided to find ways to help these refugees overcome that sense of isolation and make them aware of mathematical science-based activities in the UK.