Field of Research Analytic Number Theory, Diophantine Equations and
Diophantine Problems, Harmonic Analysis.
The Hardy-Littlewood Circle method, and the theory and applications of
exponential sums.
Professional experience
2007 - present: Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Bristol
2002 - 2005: Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
1998 - 2007: Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
1995 - 1998: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
1991 - 1995: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Honours and awards
Froelich Prize of the London Mathematical Society, 2012
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2007
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2007-2012
45-minute invited speaker, ICM 2002 in Beijing
Salem Prize, 1998
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993-1995
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow, 1993-1998
Junior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society, 1993
Other awards:
Distinguished Award of the Hardy-Ramanujan Society, 1992
Honorary Fellow of the Hardy-Ramanujan Society, 1995
Honorary Member of Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi, 1995
University of Michigan, LS&A Excellence in Research Award, 1995
University of Michigan, Henry Russel Award, 1998
University of Michigan, LS&A Excellence in Research Award, 1999
University of Michigan, LS&A Excellence in Education Award, 1999
Education
B.A. (Hons.) Mathematics, October 1984 - June 1987,
University of Cambridge, England (Gonville and Caius College)
Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, October 1987 - June 1988,
University of Cambridge, England (Gonville and Caius College)
Ph.D. Pure Mathematics, October 1988 - August 1990
University of London, England (Imperial College of Science and Technology)
External Committees and Editorial Work
2010- : Scientific Steering Committe of Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge
2010-2012: Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award selection Committee
2008: Editorial Adviser for the Bulletin, Journal and Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
2006 - present: Compositio Mathematica
2005 - 2012: Mathematical Reviews Editorial Committee
2003 - 2006: Michigan Math. Journal
AMS Committee Member 1997-, Frank and Brennie Morgan AMS-MAA-SIAM Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student.
U.S. Mathematics representative on Organizing Committee of the German- American Frontiers of Science Symposium, 1995-97 (sponsored by the German- American Academic Council, and organized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Max Planck Gesellschaft).