Born: London, 30th December, 1948 | Dual UK/German citizen |
Cambridge University, B.A. 1969
Ph.D. 1973
(supervised by Prof. J. F. Adams and Mr. A. J. Casson)
Trinity College Yeats Prize, 1970
Cambridge University Smith Prize, 1972
Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1972–1977
Visiting Member, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques,
Bures-sur-Yvette, France, 1973–1974
Princeton University: Instructor, 1977–1978
Assistant Professor, 1978–1982
Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, 1981–1982
Edinburgh University: Lecturer, 1982–1987
Reader, 1987–1995
Professor of Algebraic Surgery, 1995–2016
Honorary Professorial Fellow, 2017–
Junior Whitehead Prize of London Mathematical Society, 1983
Visiting Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1985–1986
Visiting Member, SFB 170, Göttingen University, 1987–1988
Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1992
Senior Berwick Prize of London Mathematical Society, 1994
Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, 2001
Co-Organizer, Oberwolfach Conference on Topology, 1984–1991
British Topology Meeting, Edinburgh, 1985, 2001, 2011
Oberwolfach Conference on Surgery and \( L \)-theory, 1985, 1990
Oberwolfach Conference on the Novikov conjecture, 1993
Conference on Geometric Topology and Surgery, Josai, Japan, 1996
Special Session at AMS Regional Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, 1997
Conference on Quadratic Forms and Their Applications, Dublin, 1999
Conference on Noncommutative Localization, ICMS, Edinburgh, 2002
Special Session at AMS Regional Meeting, Bloomington, Indiana, 2003
Miniworkshop on homology manifolds, Oberwolfach, 2003
Algebraic \( K \)- and \( L \)-theory of Infinite Groups, ICMS, Edinburgh, 2005
C. T. C. Wall 70th birthday conference, ICMS, Edinburgh, 2006
Miniworkshop on the Hauptvermutung, Oberwolfach, 2006
Atiyah 80th birthday conference, Edinburgh, 2009
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/˜aar/atiyah80.htm
Oberwolfach Conference on Manifold Perspectives, 2009
ICMS Workshop on The Kervaire Invariant and Stable Homotopy Theory, 2011
Oberwolfach Conference on New Directions in Algebraic \( K \)-theory, 2011
Oberwolfach Seminar on Surgery Theory, 2012
Scottish Topology Seminar, 2013–
(with D. Crowley, R. Hepworth, B. Owens, L. Watson)
Aspects of the Maslov index, American Institute of Mathematics, 2014
(with Y. Eliashberg and E. Ghys),
Singularity Theory and Topology, ICMS, Edinburgh, 2015
(with M. Borodzik, A. Pichon and W. Neumann)
Symplectic Geometry and Topology, ICMS, Edinburgh, 2016
(with J. Kedra and F. Schlenk)
Surface Bundles, Oberwolfach, 2016
(with B. Farb and U. Hämenstadt)
Braids in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, ICMS, Edinburgh, 2017
(with T. Brendle, J. Ellenberg and A. Putnam)
Research students, Adam Hughes (M.Phil. 2000)
Des Sheiham (Ph.D. 2001)
Joerg Sixt (Ph.D. 2003)
Jeremy Brookman (Ph.D. 2004)
Andrew Korzeniewski (Ph.D. 2005)
Julia Collins (Ph.D. 2011)
Mark Powell (Ph.D. 2011)
Spiros Adams-Florou (Ph.D. 2012)
Patrick Orson (Ph.D. 2015)
Chris Palmer (Ph.D. 2015)
Carmen Rovi (Ph.D. 2015)
Supreedee Dangskul (Ph.D. 2016)
Editor, Forum Mathematicum, 1988–2015
\( K \)-theory, 1990–2007
Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 2000–2010
De Gruyter Studies Series, 2001–2015
EMS Lecture Notes Series and Tracts Series, 2006–2015
Royal Society of Edinburgh Proceedings A, Mathematics, 2008–2017
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 2011–
Monografie Matematyczne, 2011–