Miss Charlotte Vale AMIMA
University of Surrey
Governance Roles :
Early Career Mathematicians Committee Role
The diversity and inclusion leader’s role is to ensure the actions of the ECM committee are inline with the wider IMA diversity and inclusion activities. They are to suggest and promote events which will showcase more diversity within the ECM community. They are to suggest ways the ECM committee can better engage with, and encourage, ECMs from more diverse backgrounds to follow mathematics as a career, become involved with the IMA, and become involved with the ECM committee.
The diversity and inclusion leader liaises with the IMA’s diversity champion, ECM events leader, and ECM engagement leader to achieve these aims. They will also feedback directly to the IMA diversity champion thoughts that the ECM committee has to improve diversity and inclusion in the ECM population, and the IMA as a whole.
In 2019 Charlotte received BSc (Hons) Physics from the University of Lincoln, performing two summer research projects “Statistical Analysis of Granular Media” and “Combinatoric Modelling of Hydrogen Bonding”, and writing a thesis on “A Geometric View of Electromagnetism”. Following this, in 2021 Charlotte received MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sheffield, writing a literature review on “Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories” and a thesis on “Paradoxes of the Quantum Aspects of Black Holes: Approaching Quantum Gravity through the Firewall Paradox”. They acted as a student / course representative throughout their taught studies.
In 2020 Charlotte joined the Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre (overlap with MSc due to COVID-19) at the University of Surrey where they are still working towards their PhD; with research interests spanning theoretical physics, computational chemistry, and mathematical biology. Charlotte’s PhD project, “Spin Dynamics of Radical Pairs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”, largely focuses on the coherence and entanglement dynamics of open quantum systems in the non-Markovian regime. They play an active role in their university, co-chairing their Faculty’s PGR Student Engagement Forum, convening seminars for their research group, and supporting trans & non-binary students as part of the SU’s LGBT+ Society.