Professor John Wilson joins our External Advisory Board

We are very happy to welcome Professor John Wilson (University of Oxford) as a new member of our School’s External Advisory Board.

Professor Wilson, born and brought up in Lincolnshire, studied at the University of Cambridge, receiving the MSc degree in 1970, the PhD degree in 1971 and the ScD degree in 1989.  He has held academic positions in Cambridge from 1969 to 1994, at the University of Birmingham from 1994 to 2003, and at the University of Oxford from 2003; he has also held visiting professorships in many other universities on three continents.  He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Group Theory since its foundation in 1998, was Editor-in-Chief of Math. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society from 1987 to 1992 and has served on the editorial boards of a number of other major international journals.

Professor Wilson has published over 100 research articles in the area of group theory and one of the standard monographs on profinite groups.  He has developed an extensive theory for branch groups, proved important results in the model theory of groups and solved a number of long-standing problems.  Read here a blog post about one of his results (click).