Education
He then completed his dissertation, entitled The levels of modular representations, under the supervision of Richard Taylor, for which he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
He then completed his dissertation, entitled The levels of modular representations, under the supervision of Richard Taylor, for which he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
He specialises in algebraic number theory. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree (Parts I & II) in Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Senior Wrangler (achiever of the highest mark), and went on to complete the C.A.S.M. He took a lectureship at Imperial College London in 1998, a readership in 2002, and was appointed to a professorship in 2004.
From October to December 2002 he held a visiting professorship at Harvard University, having previously worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1995), the University of California Berkeley (1996-1997), and the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris (2000). He was notably advisor to the musician Dan Snaith, who records as Caribou.
His favourite number is 65537.