PiDOORS

Piscopia Initiative – Doctors Outside of Research Schools

On Friday 27 November 2020 the Piscopia Initiative hosted an afternoon of talks by female speakers who have a PhD in mathematics (or a closely related subject) and who are currently working in industry.

PiDOORS speakers discuss their PhD experience, research, and current role. The target audience for the talks are 3rd/4th year undergraduate and MSc students, but PhD students or academic staff are very welcome to attend.

Speakers

Dr. Meire Fortunato

Dr. Meire Fortunato is originally from Brazil, she obtained her PhD in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her thesis was on mesh generation using numerical methods. Since 2016, she has been a research scientist at Google DeepMind.

Dr. Sorcha Gilroy

Dr. Sorcha Gilroy obtained her PhD in Natural Language Processing (specifically probabilistic models of graphs) from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a data scientist and data science team lead at Peak.ai.

Dr. Nicola Thorn

Dr. Nicola Thorn has a PhD in Operator Theory from the University of Reading and is the CEO of AND Technology Research Ltd., which develops solutions for medical and energy markets, creates internet of things products and performs data analytics.

Dr. Tendai Mugwagwa

Dr. Tendai Mugwagwa obtained her PhD in Theoretical Immunology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She is a visiting researcher at Imperial College London, has lectured at various AIMS (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences) centres and worked at Public Health England for several years as an infectious disease modeller. Currently she’s a HTA manager at Pfizer.

Dr. Helen Webster

Dr. Helen Webster has a PhD in Integrable Nonlinear Differential Equations from the University of Kent at Canterbury. She is a part-time lecturer in mathematics at Exeter University and a senior scientist at the Met Office, where she models the transport and dispersion of atmospheric substances.

Schedule

(in GMT)

  • 2:15pm – Welcome by the Piscopia Initiative.
  • 2:30pm – Dr. Nicola Thorn, CEO of AND Technology Research Ltd.
  • 3:00pm – Dr. Sorcha Gilroy, data scientist and team lead at Peak.ai.

Coffee/Tea break and chat with current mathematics students and PhD students.

  • 4:00pm – Dr. Helen Webster, scientist at the Met Office.
  • 4:30pm – Dr. Tendai Mugwagwa, previously infectious disease modeller at Public Health England, currently HTA manager at Pfizer.

Short coffee/tea break.

  • 5:10pm – Dr. Meire Fortunato, research scientist at Google Deepmind.

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Do you want to speak at our next PiDOORS event or to suggest a speaker? We’d love to hear from you! Get in touch at piscopiainitiative@gmail.com.

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