Centre for Geometry, Topology, and Applications

People

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

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.

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Professor Nansen Petrosyan

Professor

Research interests

  • Geometric Group Theory
  • Topology
  • Algebra

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Dr Nick Wright

Associate Professor

Research interests

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

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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.

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Dr Ruben Sanchez-Garcia

Professor

Research interests

  • Network modelling and analysis
  • Applied Topology

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Mrs Sara Trunecka

Senior Administrator
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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. 

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