Department of Mathematics

LSE Mathematician Wins Humboldt Fellowship

Dr Malwina Luczak of the Mathematics department has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a foundation established by the German government to promote international research collaboration. The Foundation, "sponsors top-flight, foreign scientists and scholars who come to Germany on the strength of our research fellowships and research awards to spend longer periods of time working together with German colleagues." The Foundation also notes on their website that, "Academic excellence is our premier criterion for selecting new Humboldtians... we sponsor people and not projects."

The fellowship will enable Malwina to spend a period of sabbatical leave at the Computer Department of the Humboldt University in Berlin. There, she will be conducting joint research with members of Hans Jurgen Proemel's Algorithms and Complexity group on random graph processes. This is currently a very active research area, both as an inspiration for new mathematical theory and techniques, and because of important real-life applications (for instance, to study large complex networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web). Our congratulations go to Dr Luczak.

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