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Dr Costas Loizou

Dr Costas Loizou

  • Position: Lecturer in Mathematics and Physical Sciences
  • Areas of expertise: analysis, hyperbolic equations; singularities and multiplicities; generalised functions; very weak solutions; Scholarship: transational education; disciplinary language development, sense of belonging
  • Email: C.Loizou@leeds.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Costas Loizou is a Lecturer in Mathematics at the SWJTU-Leeds Joint School, a transnational education (TNE) partnership between the University of Leeds and Southwest Jiaotong University, one of the University’s key strategic partners in China.

He joined the University as a Curriculum Redefined Transformative Educator in 2022 and is now Director of Year 1 for the Joint School. A Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), Costas completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and now supports colleagues as a mentor on the programme.

Costas has designed and leads core Year 1 modules for upcoming cohorts of more than 700 students and has extended this work to the Leeds International Summer School.

He is also a Fellow of the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE), investigating ways of redesigning active learning pedagogies to recognise and value diverse modes of engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Director of Year 1 SWJTU-Leeds Joint School
  • Module leader for XJFY0315 Mathematics
  • Module leader and designer for XJFY0400 Scientific Problem Solving & LISS1060 Computational Thinking

Research interests

His mathematial research area is in the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and in particular, hyperbolic PDEs with multiplicities and generalised functions. Costas has studied hyperbolic equations with multiplicities and irregular coefficients, seeking well-posedness results in the sense of very weak solutions.

His pedagogical research focuses on empowering TNE students to thrive in an English-medium instruction (EMI) curriculum by integrating problem-solving, disciplinary language development, and a strong sense of belonging to Leeds.

Qualifications

  • MMath, PhD
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
  • Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
  • CMI Foundation Chartered Manager (fCMgr)

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