I am a Reader in Pure Maths at Queen Mary University of London. I am not teaching at the moment, as I am serving as Director of Education Operations in the School.

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Research

Papers

Some useful things:

• genyoungtabtikz – a LaTeX package for drawing Young diagrams and tableaux
• mfabacus – a very simple LaTeX package for drawing abacus diagrams
• Coxeter graph paper
• The magic homomorphism calculator for calculating the space of homomorphisms between Specht modules in GAP4

Research interests:

• Representation theory of finite (especially symmetric) groups
• Real and complex reflection groups and their Hecke algebras
• Crystal bases and canonical bases for integrable highest-weight representations of quantum algebras
• Combinatorics of partitions

PhD students:

• Matt Spencer – completed 2013
• Liron Speyer – completed 2015
• Louise Sutton – completed 2017
• Imen Belmokhtar – completed 2019
• Diego Millan Berdasco – completed 2021
• Dean Yates – completed 2023
• Zain Kapadia – completed 2025
• Lorenzo Putignano (visiting from University of Florence) – completed 2025

Links

QMUL Maths (modules / seminars / library catalogue)	MathSciNet author search
DPMMS Cambridge (library catalogue)	Mathematics Subject Classification
	ArXiv (RT) (CO) (QA) (GR)

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