The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship is a highly prestigious, fiercely competitive award. It provides career development opportunities for researchers who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers but who have a proven record of research.

 

Luke joined the School of Mathematics in 2020 as a Heilbronn Fellow after obtaining his PhD from the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Vaibhav Gadre and Tara Brendle. He left in 2023 to join the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Van Vleck Visiting Assistant Professor and now returns to the University of Bristol as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. 

 

His research interests lie in the intersection of geometry, topology, group theory and dynamics. The focus of the project titled above is in the specific areas of Teichmüller theory, mapping class groups and hyperbolic geometry.

 

We wish Luke every success in his future research.