We are happy to welcome Christoph Ortner as a new faculty member of the IAM. Christoph is a professor in the Mathematics Department at UBC. Christoph works in numerical analysis, applied analysis, scientific computing, and machine learning, with particular focus on applications to atomistic modelling, multi-scale modelling, and coarse-graining. He joined UBC in August 2020, having previously worked at the University of Warwick and the University of Oxford.  http://www.math.ubc.ca/~ortner/