The UK’s Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) provides an authoritative, persuasive, and influential voice for the whole of the mathematical sciences. It brings together academia, education, business, industry, and government from across all four nations, providing crucial connectivity for harnessing the power of the discipline. Through expert-led policy development and broad access to mathematical expertise, and with sufficient resources, the Academy will be a critical, high-impact delivery mechanism to address essential national priorities. It will support the pipeline of people, knowledge, and skills that is vital for economic growth and societal wellbeing.
Call for Applications: Fellowship of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences
The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences is actively seeking applications for its first cohort of Fellows. We are looking for exceptional candidates across the full breadth of the mathematical sciences—educators, researchers, scholars, and those who apply the mathematical sciences in business, industry, or government. The Fellowship of the Academy will together represent and embody the breadth of impact and excellence that can be found across the whole of the mathematical landscape in the UK. Fellows will between them have a diverse range of career paths and experiences—as befits their different fields of endeavour and different career stages—but each of them will have made an exceptional contribution to or with the mathematical sciences, with the appetite and potential to make further such contributions in the future.
Fellows of the Academy will play a crucial role going forward—as leading ambassadors for the Academy, and key points of contact and connectivity between the mathematical sciences community, the Academy, and the wider world of industry, government, learning and society. The Fellowship of the Academy—the collection of Fellows—will also be more than the sum of its parts, providing a visible representation of the range and diversity of excellence in the mathematical sciences, and a practical demonstration of the potential and value of collaborating across boundaries.
We expect to appoint a small first cohort of Fellows in 2025, with further cohorts appointed yearly. The Academy strongly encourages applications by a diverse range of candidates who stand out for their contributions to or using the mathematical sciences—including individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, different genders, ethnicities, regions and nations of the UK, and areas of the mathematical sciences.
The President of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences is Prof. Dame Alison Etheridge, FRS. She writes:
Mathematics underpins hundreds of billions of pounds of economic activity, from financial services and tech unicorns to engineering and the pharmaceutical industry. For example, in 2023, mathematical sciences contributed an estimated £495 billion, or 20% of the total, UK Gross Value Added. And yet, there are almost no national academies focused on the mathematical sciences. In the UK, the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences is a community-led initiative to put that right.
The appointment of the first cohort of Fellows is an important milestone as the Academy cements its position as an authoritative, persuasive, and influential voice for the whole of the mathematical sciences—providing crucial connectivity between academia, education, business, industry, and government.
As well as being an honour—and a mark of recognition by the community—Fellowship comes with an expectation to play a leading role in supporting the work of the Academy. To harness leadership right across our activities, we aim to appoint a balanced cohort of individuals who develop, teach, research, communicate, and use the full breadth of mathematical science disciplines.
It is not necessary to be a Fellow to work with the Academy. There are myriad opportunities, for individuals who care about strengthening the people pipeline, excellence in research or teaching, effective knowledge exchange, advocacy and communication, applying the mathematical sciences in business or the public sector, maths for policy, or policy for maths, diversity of the mathematical sciences workforce, or…
We see this call as an opportunity for anyone who shares our ambition to transform the landscape of the mathematical sciences in the UK to get in touch.
For now, the Academy is a UK initiative, but we hope that others will follow and this will be just part of a wider wave of recognition of the central importance of the mathematical sciences.
The Academy is seeking applications for its first cohort of Fellows. The closing date for applications is Monday 15th September, 2025 at 23.59 (UK time). For details, see https://www.acadmathsci.org.uk/2025/06/23/call-for-fellowship-applications-academy-for-the-mathematical-sciences/