Dr Andrew Gascoyne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Computer Science. Prior to that he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at The University of Sheffield on the STFC funded project entitled "Magnetic Features and Local Helioseismology". He graduated in 2007 from the University of Sheffield with an MMath in Mathematics and went on to study a PhD in Applied Mathematics of which he was awarded in 2011. He started working at the University of Wolverhampton in 2015 where he continues his research in Solar Physics and has been a colaborator within the Wolverhampton Light & Matter Research Group (WLM) and Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute (WCRI).  Andrew is currently a researcher in the Digital Innovations and Solution Centre (DISC) working on Deep Machine Learning models from architecture to applications, including optimisation problems, bioacoustics, aquaponics and natural language processing.  He is  also passionate about mathematics education within Higher Education as a member of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the dissemination of mathematics to wider society. I am currently involved in external projects which try to tackle the Maths GCSE barrier which is a large obstacle to many people who have ambitions on a career in the STEMM (Science, Technology, Mathematics and Medicine) fields.  Andrew, along with a group of academics at the University of Wolverhampton, secured funding totalling £2.2 million from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) in 2023 to create an easy-to-use online program for improving the basic math skills of working adults in the West Midlands.