Ref Number
B04-07369
Professional Expertise
Academic
Department
UCL BEAMS (B04)
Location
London
Working Pattern
Full time
Salary
See advert text
Contract Type
Fixed-term
Working Type
Hybrid
Available for Secondment
No
Closing Date
06-Sept-2026
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 2011, the department has grown considerably. The department today is home to around eighty-four academic staff, including thirty-nine full professors, and a number of honorary staff, supported by a professional services team of twenty-five. Its community also includes around thirty-six Postdoctoral Research Fellows, around ninety PhD students, and fifty-four 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, groups and 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 applied mathematics, as well as seminar series joint with other London universities in financial mathematics, number theory, geometry and analysis. There are regular London-Paris meetings in financial mathematics, analysis and number theory and a London-Brussels meeting in geometry. The department hosts an annual meeting in the dynamics of rotating fluids.
Applications are invited for a full-time Lecturer (Teaching) in Financial Mathematics position.
This post is available from 28 September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter until 31st July 2028.
An outstanding candidate will be a mathematician or quantitative researcher holding a PhD in financial mathematics, applied probability, numerical analysis, statistics or a closely related discipline, awarded or to be awarded before the start date. They will combine broad familiarity with core financial mathematics with command of the computational and numerical methods used in modern quantitative finance, and will be fluent in Python. They will also bring specialist expertise in an area of financial mathematics beyond the core syllabus, for delivery at Level 7 within an existing module. They will teach modules on the MSc Financial Mathematics programme in UCL's Department of Mathematics, as well as supervise MSc Financial Mathematics and other MSc students for their summer projects. Substantial experience of teaching quantitative subjects in higher education, strong communication, and a collaborative approach are essential.
For a full spectrum of duties and responsibilities as well as essential and desired criteria please refer to the Further Particulars document attached to this advert.
If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Anna Rutherford ([email protected]).
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Daniel Schwarz, email: [email protected] or Prof Christian G Boehmer, email: [email protected]
We particularly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level.
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) • Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan • Immigration loan • Relocation scheme for certain posts • On-Site nursery • On-site gym • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service • Discounted medical insurance
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.
