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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor Schönlieb is Professor of Applied Mathematics at DAMTP and head of the Cambridge Image Analysis group (CIA). Moreover, she is the Director of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information (CCIMI) and Director of the EPSRC Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Multimodal Clinical Imaging (CMIH), a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and co-Chair of the Cambridge Centre for Data Driven Discovery (C2D3). Currently I am also chairing the SIAM activity group on Imaging Sciences and the Applied Mathematics Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS).

Career

Positions:

  • since October 2018: Professor at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • October 2015 to September 2018: Reader at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • since October 2011: Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK.
  • September 2010 to September 2015: Lecturer at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.
  • September 2009 to September 2010: Postdoc at NAM (Institute of Numerical and Applied Mathematics), Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany.
  • October 2008 to September 2009: Research Assistant at DAMTP, University of Cambridge.
  • October 2005 to October 2008: Research Assistant at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria.
  • September 2002 to June 2004: Research Assistant at the Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg, Austria.

 

Education:

  • July 18, 2009: Admission to the degree Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge (UK)
  • January 30, 2004: Master’s degree in Mathematics with Honors, University of Salzburg (Austria)

 

Honors and Awards:

  • 2020: Wolfson Fellowship, Royal Society UK.
  • 2019: Calderón Prize, Inverse Problems International Association.
  • 2017: Philip Leverhulme Prize.
  • 2016: Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society.
  • 2013: EPSRC Science Photo Award, 1st Prize in the Category People.
  • 2008: Mary Bradburn Award from the BFWG.
  • 2004: Scholarship from the University of Salzburg (Austria) for exceptional achievements as a student
  • 2002: Hans-Stegbuchner-Award from the Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg (Austria).

Research

Professor Schönlieb's research interests focus on variational methods, partial differential equations and machine learning for image analysis, image processing and inverse imaging problems. She has active interdisciplinary collaborations with clinicians, biologists and physicists on biomedical imaging topics, chemical engineers and plant scientists on image sensing, as well as collaborations with artists and art conservators on digital art restoration.. More details the website of her research group, Cambridge Image Analysis (CIA).

Publications

Inverse Evolution Layers: Physics-Informed Regularizers for Image Segmentation
C Liu, Z Qiao, C Li, C-B Schönlieb
– SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science
(2025)
7,
55
G-Adaptivity: optimised graph-based mesh relocation for finite element methods
J Rowbottom, G Maierhofer, T Deveney, E Mueller, A Paganini, K Schratz, P Lio, C-B Schonlieb, C Budd
– Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
(2025)
267,
52173
Score-based Pullback Riemannian Geometry: Extracting the Data Manifold Geometry using Anisotropic Flows
W Diepeveen, G Batzolis, Z Shumaylov, CB Schönlieb
– Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
(2025)
267,
13746
Towards Graph Foundation Models: A Study on the Generalization of Positional and Structural Encodings
BJ Franks, M Eliasof, S Cantürk, G Wolf, CB Schönlieb, S Fellenz, M Kloft
– Transactions on Machine Learning Research
(2025)
2025-February,
LIE ALGEBRA CANONICALIZATION: EQUIVARIANT NEURAL OPERATORS UNDER ARBITRARY LIE GROUPS
Z Shumaylov, P Zaika, J Rowbottom, F Sherry, M Weber, CB Schönlieb
– 13th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2025
(2025)
13401
ESTIMATION OF SINGLE-CELL AND TISSUE PERTURBATION EFFECT IN SPATIAL TRANSCRIPTOMICS VIA SPATIAL CAUSAL DISENTANGLEMENT
S Megas, DG Chen, K Polanski, M Eliasof, CB Schönlieb, SA Teichmann
– 13th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2025
(2025)
82875
Preface
TA Bubba, R Gaburro, S Gazzola, K Papafitsoros, M Pereyra, CB Schönlieb
– Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(2025)
15668 LNCS,
v
Towards Efficient Training of Graph Neural Networks: A Multiscale Approach
E Gal, M Eliasof, CB Schönlieb, II Kyrchei, E Haber, E Treister
– Transactions on Machine Learning Research
(2025)
2025-November,
Graph Adaptive Autoregressive Moving Average Models
M Eliasof, A Gravina, A Ceni, C Gallicchio, D Bacciu, C-B Schonlieb
– Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
(2025)
267,
15232
Preface
TA Bubba, R Gaburro, S Gazzola, K Papafitsoros, M Pereyra, CB Schönlieb
– Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(2025)
15667 LNCS,
v
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Research Groups

Cambridge Image Analysis
Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information
Centre for Mathematical Imaging in Healthcare

Room

F0.06

Telephone

01223 764251