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Milette Gillow

Dr. Milette Gillow is a former VC and university lecturer in pure mathematics, as well as a professional opera singer trained at the Royal Academy of Music (career highlights include Dido, Dido and Aeneas and Zlatohřbítek, Příhody lišky Bystroušky with HGO, which won a 2023 Off West End Theatre Award). Her work with startups has taken her to Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, Dublin, and Amsterdam, most recently as a Talent Investor and later a founder-in-residence with Entrepreneur First. She is an EY Enterprise Game winner 2014, a Startup Weekend HK runner up 2016, and a Kathleen Ferrier Semifinalist 2023. Milette has worked extensively on projects centering women throughout her career, from hackathons to panels to concerts, and joined the Governing Board of Oxford High School GDST in September 2024. She co-founded The Tech Bros in 2024, an organisation backing female-founded tech companies, with a particular focus on AI / ML, robotics, aerospace, and quantum startups.

Jennie Golding

Jennie was a mathematics undergraduate and postgraduate researcher in Oxford at a time of women’s severe under-representation in universities, let alone in mathematics. She very much enjoyed her first, extensive career in teaching and primary/secondary teacher development; flourished as mother to 3 girls; and now thrives as a mathematics education policy and practice academic. Jennie will use these different lenses to focus on how we can enhance gender-equitable embrace of mathematics-intensive fields.

Sophie Maclean

Sophie Maclean is a mathematician and experienced maths communicator currently studying for a PhD in Analytic Number Theory at King's College London. When not discovering new maths, Sophie shares her love of maths with others by delivering talks and workshops all around the UK and beyond. She is a regular on the Numberphile Youtube Channel and also has spoken about maths at the renowned Cheltenham Science Festival.

Meena Mehta Kotecha

Meena achieved her BA Honours in philosophy and psychology followed by a Master’s in sociology at the University of Mumbai, India, before reading mathematical sciences. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is known for her research on mathematics anxiety reported by university students. This is an important issue for educational policy and practice. Currently, Meena is working with the Cambridge University Press on writing a monograph on mathematics anxiety. She is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics (LSE)

Meena was an invited speaker at the panel session entitled “Maths Anxiety and Improving Resilience” at the 60th Anniversary celebration of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) in October 2024. In May 2024, she was invited by Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, to give a talk on mathematics anxiety and its impact on university students. Her invited talk entitled “Mathematics Anxiety and Learning Experience of Statistics and Research Methods”, was filmed by Sage Publishers and published in March 2024. In June 2019, Meena was a keynote speaker at a conference “Teaching Statistics to Non-Specialists”, co-organised by the Universities of Nottingham, and Birmingham.

Meena was named as an LSE Innovator by The Learning Technology and Innovation department at LSE in 2016. She has been presenting invited sessions at the Royal Statistical Society annual international conferences since 2016. In 2015, she was included in Jisc’s list of the 50 most influential university education professionals.

Since 2015, Meena has co-organised three mathematics education international conferences in collaboration with the IMA, the Universities of Glasgow, the University of Warwick, and the Open University.

Bethany Marsh

Bethany Marsh was awarded a PhD at the University of Warwick in 1996. She was a postdoc at Bielefeld University in Germany and at the University of Glasgow before starting as a Lecturer at the University of Leicester in 1998. She moved to the University of Leeds in 2006 and was promoted to Professor in 2009. She was an EPSRC Leadership Fellow from 2008-2014 and was awarded a London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize in 2009 for her work on representation theory and especially for her research on cluster categories and cluster algebras. Bethany transitioned in 2020. She was featured on the Isaac Newton Institute Living Proof podcast series in 2021 and was the first trans woman to give the London Mathematical Society Mary Cartwright lecture in 2024.

Charles Martinez

Dr. Charles Martinez is the Academic Relations Manager at G-Research. Charles completed a PhD at the University of Nottingham. Charles' previous role was as Elsevier's Key Account Manager, managing sales and renewals for the UK Russell Group institutions, Government and Funding body accounts, including being one of the negotiators in the UK ScienceDirect Read and Publish agreement. Since leaving Elsevier Charles is dedicated to forming beneficial partnerships between G-Research and Europe's top institutions, and is living in Cambridge, UK.

Kimiya Minoukadeh

Kimiya has over 10 years experience in FX electronic market making and has been leading the quant team within FX e-Trading at ING since 2021. Prior to ING, she was at UBS on the FX cash and options electronic desks building pricing, hedging and analytics models. She graduated from Oxford University with a First Class BA in Maths & Computer Science and MSc in Mathematical Modelling. She continued her post-graduate studies in Paris at Ecole Polytechnique and received her PhD in Applied Maths from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

Anthea Monod

Anthea Monod is a senior lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on problems intersecting algebraic topology and algebraic geometry with computation, statistics, machine learning, and data analysis.

She currently leads a group of 18 researchers (postdocs, PhD students, MSc students and undergraduate research assistants). She is a Co-Director of the “Erlangen Programme” £10M EPSRC-funded Hub for Mathematical and Computational Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. She earned her PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to joining Imperial, she held postdoctoral and visiting faculty positions at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Duke University, Columbia University in the City of New York, and Tel Aviv University.

Anthea is committed to promoting and supporting early career researchers, especially those who are women, gender-diverse, and come from an ethnic minority given that these characteristics can pose challenges, some of which she can relate to herself. She is especially passionate about supporting and raising awareness for researchers with caring responsibilities, since she is currently balancing a research career with a son in reception and a daughter attending nursery.

Eleonora Svanberg

Eleonora is a Swedish DPhil student in mathematical physics at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the non-profit Girls in STEM. Before Oxford, she studied at University of Cambridge and Stockholm University. As an award-winning advocate for equality within science, she uses social media, with over 300,000 followers, to inspire young people to pursue science and recently published her first book in Sweden, aimed at building mathematical confidence and breaking stereotypes in STEM.

Keisha Thompson

Keisha Thompson FRSA is a Manchester based writer, performance artist and producer. She is Co-Chair of the Independent Theatre Council, a trustee of Olympias Music Foundation and recipient of the DARE Art Prize 2024 from Opera North and the University of Leeds in association with National Science and Media Museum and The Tetley.

As a part of the University of Manchester’s bicentenary she was acknowledged as one of 200 alumni to be a part of the bicentenary way. She also holds an honorary fellowship with them. Formerly, she has been Artistic Director and CEO of Contact, Manchester, Chair of radical arts funding body, Future’s Venture Foundation and was the first recipient of The Arts Foundation Theatre Makers Award in 2021.

She studied Politics and Philosophy followed by a PGCE in Mathematics at University of Manchester before delving into the arts and education sector. She has taken up posts such as Senior Manager for Children and Young People at the Arts Council England and Senior Education Programme Manager at The World Reimagined.

In May 2022, she completed a residency with Esplanade Theatre in Singapore. Her focus was on her on-going project, DeCipher. The expansive educational project, looks at mathematical pedagogy and how it can be taught in a creative way in non-educational spaces. She is working to find out how it can be decolonised, democratised and dismantled. The goal is to create interactions that allow for agency, joy and discovery. A maths lesson that feels like a poetry workshop, a dance class or an interactive installation.

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