About me
I'm currently the Interim Dean, and an Associate Professor of Mathematics, in the School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, situated in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. I joined Grenfell Campus in 2013.
From September 2023 until May 2024 (and previously from September 2019 until August 2022), I served as Program Chair for the General Science program.
I am also cross-appointed to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Memorial University's St. John's campus, where I am a member of the Combinatorics Group.
Originally, I am from the less-than-glamorous city of Wolverhampton, England, but somehow ended up in Corner Brook after stints in Leeds, Waterloo (Ontario), Leeds (again), London, Ottawa, Regina and Toronto.
Education
- M.Math. (hons), Mathematics, University of Leeds, 2002. (This was an extended undergraduate program that culminated in the award of a Masters degree.)
I spent my third year as an exchange student at the University of Waterloo.
In my fourth year, I completed a dissertation supervised by Prof. Dugald Macpherson. - Ph.D. Mathematics, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006. Supervisor: Prof. Peter Cameron.
Career History
- From May 2024: Interim Dean, School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.
- From September 2020: Associate Professor of Mathematics (tenured), School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. (Cross-appointed to Department of Mathematics and Statistics since February 2023.)
- August 2018–August 2020: Assistant Professor of Mathematics (tenure-track), School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.
- August 2015–July 2018: Assistant Professor of Mathematics (3-year Regular Term Appointment), School of Science and the Environment (Division of Science until July 2016), Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.
- August 2013–April 2015: Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Division of Science, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.
- September 2012–August 2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).
- September 2011–August 2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina.
- September 2009–August 2011: PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina.
- September 2007–August 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University.