Polina Vytnova has been appointed to a Lectureship in Mathematics at Surrey with effect from 1st September. Polina was formerly a Research Associate at the University of Warwick working with Mark Pollicott. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Warwick in 2014, supervised by Oleg Kozlovski. She works in the area of dynamical systems with emphasis on dynamical systems in number theory. Further information and list of publications can be found at her current homepage (link here). The image below shows Polina enjoying the wider world before embarking on her new role at Surrey.