City academic bags maths fellowship

A UNIVERSITY of Portsmouth academic has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in an extraordinary feat for an engineer.

Rallis Papademetriou, from the school of energy and electronic engineering, was recognised for his achievements and competencies in the development and application of mathematics.

He said: ‘I am deeply honoured to have been accepted to the rank of Fellow of the IMA….My academic career of four decades as researcher and educator has been in mathematical engineering and I aspire to continue delivering engineering education balancing rigour and intuition.’