Education and Academic
2009-
Visiting Fellowship at the University of Leeds
During this time I’ve primarily been working as a mathematical writer, aiming at the general public. See my writing and speaking page. In what time I have left, I do some research in Model Theory.
2008-2009
I studied for and obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (with Qualified Teacher Status) at the University of Leeds
2006
Postdoctoral Position at Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg, Germany. Working in Model Theory with the group led by Professor Martin Ziegler
2001-2005
Postgraduate Student at the University of Leeds
My PhD Thesis is entitled Dimension and Measure In Finite First Order Structures, and was supervised by Dugald Macpherson
1997-2001
Undergraduate Student at the University of Oxford, MMath, 1st Class Honours
Other Stuff
I’ve acted in 3 plays during my adult life, and was the president of the Oxford University Jazz Society for a year (1999-2000). I play the piano indifferently, and the bass worse, but neither is as bad as my singing. I speak Japanese at what is euphemistically termed an intermediate level, and have a certificate from Leeds Metropolitan University to prove it.
My Erdős number is 3. I’m a vegetarian and a teetotaller, for unrelated reasons. I was born in 1978, grew up in London and am currently based in Leeds in the UK, where I live with my wife Haruka.