Dr Sophie Huczynska

Dr Sophie Huczynska

Reader

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3711
Email
sh70@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
312 MI
Location
Mathematical Institute

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Biography

Dr Huczynska joined the School in 2003, having obtained her PhD at the University of Glasgow and worked as a researcher at the University of Edinburgh.Ìý She held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship from 2004-2010, before becoming a Lecturer in 2010, Senior Lecturer in 2015 and Reader in 2023.Ìý She has worked part-time since 2008.

Research areas

My research interests are in the area of combinatorics and finite fields. One of my main current research activities concerns the application of combinatorial structures (particularly external difference families and their generalizations) to coding theory and cryptography.Ìý I am also interested in how combinatorial objects such as graphs, digraphs and permutations may be viewed as relational structures.

More information about my research may be found on my personal website

PhD supervision

  • StruanÌýMcCartney
  • YayiÌýZhu

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S., Jefferson, C. & McCartney, S., 15 May 2026, In: Designs, Codes and Cryptography. 94, 5, 21 p., 110.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S., Klawuhn, L. & Paterson, M. B., 1 Sept 2026, In: Finite Fields and Their Applications. 114, 44 p., 102828.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S., Johnson, L. & Paterson, M. B., 1 Aug 2025, In: Finite Fields and Their Applications. 105, 23 p., 102604.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S. & Hume, S., Jun 2025, In: Designs, Codes and Cryptography. 93, 6, p. 1985-2012 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Davis, J. A., Huczynska, S., Johnson, L. & Polhill, J., 1 Oct 2024, In: Finite Fields and Their Applications. 99, 13 p., 102499.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S. & Johnson, L., Apr 2024, In: Journal of Combinatorial Designs. 32, 4, p. 190-213 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S. & Ng, S.-L., 30 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Archiv der Mathematik. 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S. & Johnson, L., 1 Mar 2023, In: Discrete Mathematics. 346, 3, 24 p., 113295.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S., Jefferson, C. & Nepšinská, S., Mar 2021, In: Cryptography and Communications . 13, 2, p. 331–341 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Huczynska, S. & Paterson, M., 9 Jul 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Archiv der Mathematik. First Online, 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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