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University College London (UCL), Mathematics

Position ID:
1002-LECTURER [#28085, B04-06982]
Position Title:
Lecturer in Pure Mathematics
Position Type:
Tenured & Senior faculty
Position Location:
London, London, City of, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Appl Deadline:
2026/03/01 23:59:59 (posted 2026/02/09, listed until 2026/03/01)
Position Description:
   

Position Description

About us 

The Department of Mathematics at UCL is an internationally renowned department within one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Since its beginning, Mathematics at UCL has been enhanced by its many outstanding members of staff. Indeed, two of its students (and later staff) Professor Klaus Roth (1958) and Professor Alan Baker (1970) have gone on to win the Fields Medal. Another former member of staff Professor Tim Gowers won the Fields Medal in 1998 for work he did whilst at UCL. 

Since the 2010s, the department has grown considerably, with over 100 academic and honorary staff members, including fellows of the Royal Society. The department has approximately 30 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, around 120 PhD students and 50 MSc students. We welcome a regular stream of distinguished visiting academics from home and abroad. The broad range of research interests is reflected in the wide choice of courses available in the third and fourth years of the degree programmes, from spectral theory, elliptic curves, algebraic geometry, to fluid mechanics and from mathematical ideas in biology to cosmology. Research funding in the department from EPSRC, ERC, NERC, Leverhulme Trust and the Wellcome Trust has grown significantly in recent years, more than doubling since 2014. 

The department has internationally recognised research groups in pure and applied analysis; fluid mechanics; mathematical physics; geometry and topology; algebra, number theory, and combinatorics; mathematical modelling in biology, finance, industry and society. There are regular departmental seminar series in financial mathematics and applied mathematics, as well as seminar series joint with other London universities in combinatorics, number theory, geometry, and analysis. There are regular London-Paris meetings in analysis and number theory and a London-Brussels meeting in geometry. 

About the role 

Applications are invited for two full-time Lecturer in Pure Mathematics positions. 

Duties and responsibilities: 


Teaching:

 Teaching undergraduate level and postgraduate level courses in Mathematics 


Management and Administration: 


Professional Development: 

  • Pursuing academic excellence through continuing academic, professional and personal 

The posts are available from 1 Sep 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. 

Salary, dependent on qualifications and experience, will be on the UCL scale Grade 8, point 39 – 44 which is £54,931 – £62,903 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance). 

About you 

Candidates should either have a PhD or equivalent qualification in pure mathematics. 

An outstanding candidate is a mathematician who has demonstrated the ability to perform research at the highest level and displays a promising future research career to become a leader in their field. The candidate should be able to demonstrate the ability to secure external research income. The candidate is expected to have experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and supervise students at various levels.

 For a full spectrum of duties and responsibilities as well as essential, and desired criteria please refer to the JD attached to this advert. 

Please provide contact details (in your CV) for 3 references as they may be contacted 

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Anna Rutherford (anna.rutherford@ucl.ac.uk). 

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Yiannis Petridis i.petridis@ucl.ac.uk (Head of Pure Mathematics) or Prof Christian G Boehmer c.boehmer@ucl.ac.uk (Head of Department). 

We particularly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level.

What we offer 

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion UCL Department of Mathematics is committed to developing the careers of all its staff by providing a supportive environment in which they can flourish. We believe that inclusive teams produce the best student experience, and we strive for an environment in which all staff can bring their whole selves to work. The Department actively promotes UCL's work-life balance policy which acknowledges that its staff are most productive when they have achieved a balance that enables them to meet their responsibilities outside work. 

Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancing gender equality.

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