Dr Francesca Iezzi
Mathematics Engagement Officer
- The University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 5842
- Email: francesca.iezzi@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 5329
James Clerk Maxwell Building
The King's Buildings
Peter Guthrie Tait Road - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3FD
Background
I am the Public Engagement Officer for the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.
My tasks include:
- Leading and coordinating the outreach activities of the School (i. e. all activities aimed at communicating the School’s research and sharing our passion for Mathematics with the wider community)
- Coordinating the Mathematics Outreach Team, leading students' skills development, supervising undergraduate projects which focus on Maths Communication
- Designing and running activities for the public and producing educational resources
Below are some educational resources I produced:
- Have Fun with Maths - a series of educational resources for primary or secondary schools.
- Maths Week at Work - a series of videos for secondary school students outlining a range of career paths mathematics can open up.
To find out more about the activities I coordinate, please visit the Outreach section of the School of Mathematics web page:
I was formerly a PhD student at the University of Warwick, under the supervision of Brian Bowditch, graduating in 2016.
After completing my PhD I was an Early Career Fellow at Warwick Institute of Advanced Study and Warwick Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning. During that time I developed an interest for pedagogy and education, in particular for questions concerning interdisciplinarity and the link between research and teaching in Higher Education.
Research summary
I am currently interested in questions concerning Mathematics Outreach, Mathematics Education and Science Communication.
Past research interests
My PhD research was in Geometric Topology. In particular, I was working on questions concerning surface mapping class groups and outer automorphism groups of free groups. As a fellow at the Warwick Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning I worked on a project concerning the research-teaching nexus. In particular, I investigated examples of research-led teaching at Warwick University, across different departments.- (With Brian. H. Bowditch), Projections of the sphere graph to the arc graph of a surface; Journal of Topology and Analysis (2018)
- Sphere systems, standard form, and cores of products of trees; Beyond Hyperbolicity, Cambridge University Press (2019)
- A New World...Out of Nothing: review of an interdisciplinary workshop; Exchanges: the Warwick research journal (2017)
- Maths Week at Work: Connecting Maths to Everiday Life; The Scottish Mathematical Council Journal (2019)
- The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers, a book review; London Mathematical Society Newsletter, November 2020
- Have Fun with Maths: Resources for Problem Solving; The Scottish Mathematical Council Journal (2020)
- (With Benjamin D. Goddard, Pavel Iosad, Will Reynolds and Graeme Trousdale), Mind Games, Cracking Code in Maths and Languages, The Scottish Mathematical Council Journal (2022)
- (With Benjamin D. Goddard and Mary O'Brien), Virtual Maths Circles: helping young people to think like researchers; Research For All, UCL Press (2024)
- (With Benjamin D. Goddard, Pavel Iosad, Will Reynolds and Graeme Trousdale), On opportunities to study historical linguistics in schools in the United Kingdom, Pedagogical Linguistics (2025)