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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Professor Jim Anderson BA, PhD, PFHEA

Professor of Mathematics

Research interests

  • Hyperbolic space and its isometries
  • Kleinian groups (discrete groups of isometries of hyperbolic 3-space)
  • Signatures of actions of automorphism groups on Riemann surfaces

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.w.anderson@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Jim Renshaw PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Algebraic semigroup theory
  • Actions of semigroups and monoids on sets and ordered structures.
  • Semigroup amalgams and the homological classification theory of monoids.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.h.renshaw@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Nansen Petrosyan

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: n.petrosyan@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Nick Wright

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Coarse geometry
  • Non-commutative geometry
  • The Baum-Connes conjecture

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: n.j.wright@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Emeritus Professor Peter Kropholler

Research interests

  • Splittings of groups and group actions on trees. Ends of groups.
  • Groups with Eilenberg–Mac Lane spaces of finite type, their structure and their classifying spaces for proper actions.
  • Modular Invariant Theory.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: p.h.kropholler@southampton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Ruben Sanchez-Garcia

Professor

Research interests

  • Network modelling and analysis
  • Applied Topology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: r.sanchez-garcia@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Stephen Theriault

Professor of Mathematics

Research interests

  • The homotopy theory of spheres and Moore spaces.
  • Applications of homotopy theory to Lie groups, gauge groups and manifolds.
  • Polyhedral products and toric topology. 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.d.theriault@soton.ac.uk

Address: B54, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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