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Solar weather predictions

Professor Steven Tobias is refining crucial solar weather predictions for a NASA panel

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Tracking extreme weather

Professor Doug Parker is working with the Met Office to use crowd-sourced data to track storms and extreme weather

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Research and Innovation

We carry out world-leading research in the mathematical sciences and are one of the largest mathematics Schools in the UK. Our success is built on a strong community of excellent researchers working across a diverse spectrum of research fields.

Our research combines a core mathematical focus with a strong interdisciplinary ethos spanning our three major themes: applied mathematics, pure mathematics and statistics.

We run weekly seminars with speakers from within the School, other departments at the University and external organisations.

We have strong links with Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics, the Astbury Centre for Structural Biology and the Bragg Centre for Materials Research.

We’re a partner of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

Top 10

in the UK

for the quality of our research, latest REF

Over 110

academic and research staff

working with over 75 PhD researchers to deliver high-impact research

Over 85%

of our research activity is

‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent' latest REF

Research areas

Applied nonlinear dynamics research at the University of Leeds

Applied mathematics

Our research is concerned with solving challenging equations that describe interesting and important problems. We work with many other disciplines across the University.