Learn about your named contact who will offer you academic guidance during your studies. Academic Cohort Leads (ACLs) What We Do You will be assigned an Academic Cohort Lead (ACL) who will stay with you throughout your time at university. Your Academic Cohort Lead will assist you with questions relating to Mathematics and your studies, as well offering academic advice about your further academic journey and your career aspriations. They will also help build a community within your cohort and the wider school by facilitating social events and networking opportunities. Who We Are The Academic Cohort Leads are: Akshay Gupte Amanda Lenzi Andreas Grothey Stefan Engelhardt Tibor Antal Torben Sell What We Can Help With We are a key part of the Student Support ecosystem in the School of Mathematics and take the lead on the following areas: Welcome, induction and transition Community building Academic support Meeting your Academic Cohort Lead You will meet your Academic Cohort Lead in Welcome Week, and will have a number of events scheduled throughout the academic year which your Academic Cohort Lead will facilitate. This can range from social events, such as pizza nights, to skills-focussed seminars. Who you should contact if you have not had a reply from your Academic Cohort Lead? If you have not had a prompt response (normally three working days), then email the Director of Teaching (Students) Vanda Inacio De Carvalho PGT Programme Directors Each PGT programme also has a Programme Director. The Programme Directors are: Tibor Antal - Computational Applied Mathematics Nicole Augustin - Statistics Jiawei Li - Finance Kit Searle - Operational Research This article was published on 2025-02-26