Matthew Jenssen
Reader in Probability
Research interests
- Mathematics
Biography
Matthew Jensen is a Reader in Probability in the Department of Mathematics, King's College London. He obtained a BA in Mathematics from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge in 2012. He stayed on to do Part III and graduated with an MMath in 2013. Matthew went on to do a PhD in Mathematics at the London School of Economics under the supervision of Professor Jozef Skokan and Professor Julia Boettcher.
Following his PhD, Matthew took up a postdoctoral position at the University of Oxford where he spent two years. In 2020, he joined the University of Birmingham as a Lecturer in Probability. In August 2022 he was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. In January 2023, Matthew joined the Department of Mathematics at King’s College London as a Reader in Probability.
Research interests
- Discrete probability
- Probabilistic/Extremal combinatorics
- Statistical physics
- Algorithms
- Random matrix theory
Further information
Research
Probability
The Probability group in the Department of Mathematics at King's College London.
Advancing Statistical Physics Methods for Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Geometry
Understanding how complex patterns emerge from simple interactions.
Project status: Ongoing
News
King's Mathematician helps solve sphere packing problem centuries in the making
The study is the first to make an improvement on the lower bound of sphere packing by more than a constant factor since 1947.
Research
Probability
The Probability group in the Department of Mathematics at King's College London.
Advancing Statistical Physics Methods for Combinatorics, Algorithms, and Geometry
Understanding how complex patterns emerge from simple interactions.
Project status: Ongoing
News
King's Mathematician helps solve sphere packing problem centuries in the making
The study is the first to make an improvement on the lower bound of sphere packing by more than a constant factor since 1947.