Catherine Powell is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis at the University of Manchester. She has worked in the field of stochastic PDEs and uncertainty quantification for ten years. She has co-organised several conferences on the subject, and together with Tony Shardlow, initialised the annual NASPDE series of meetings (now in its sixth year). Currently, she is the principal investigator on an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded project on the 'Numerical Analysis of PDEs with Random Data'. She is a member of the Society for Industrial and Appli...