Research Supervision

My former PhD students are (in chronological order):

Elaine Render, who wrote her thesis on algebraic automata theory and went on to a postdoc at UCLA; she now works for IMDb.com.
David Wilding, who wrote his thesis on the algebra structure of semirings.
Matthew Taylor, whose thesis was on identities in tropical matrix semigroups and modules over the tropical semiring.
Peter Fenner, whose thesis was on algorithmic problems in boolean matrix monoids, including in particular gossip monoids, and who is now a research scientist for IBM.
Thomas Aird, who wrote his thesis on identities in tropical matrix semigroups, and is currently a Heilbronn Fellow in Manchester.

Postdocs I have supervised (for longer or shorter periods, some jointly) include Christopher Hollings (now a lecturer in Oxford), Marianne Johnson (now a senior lecturer in Manchester), Markus Pfeiffer (currently working for Huawei R&D), James Hook (who went on to an academic position in Bath but is now doing other things) and Meisam Sharify (now an assistant professor at Isfahan University of Technology). My current postdoc is Jan Philipp Wächter.

If you are interested in working with me as a research student or postdoc, please feel free to get in touch. It would be helpful if you could describe your experience and the area you would like to work in. Some fully funded PhD places are available each year (usually for students with a well-above-borderline first class degree). Alternatively, the Department of Mathematics runs a one-year taught-plus-dissertation MSc programme in Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, which makes an excellent precursor to doctoral study; if you would like to work in one of my research areas, I would be happy to consider supervising your final dissertation. For full details of the School's postgraduate programmes, look here for taught masters and here for research programmes.