Of the 209 successful grants, eight are in mathematics. The funding awarded to Professor Richard Samworth, College Lecturer in Pure Mathematics and University Professor of Statistical Science, will help him explore robust statistical methodology and theory for large-scale data. He said: “The context of the proposal is that large-scale data are usually messy: they may be collected under different conditions, and data may be missing or corrupted, which makes it difficult to draw reliable conclusions. This grant will allow me to focus my time on developing robust statistical methodology and theory to address these challenges. Equally importantly, I will be able to build a group of PhD students and post-docs that will dramatically increase the scale and scope of what we are able to achieve.”