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
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
2008: Editorial Adviser for the Bulletin, Journal and Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
2006 - present: Compositio Mathematica
2005 - present: 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).