Martin Liebeck (born 23 September 1954) is a professor of Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London whose research interests include group theory and algebraic combinatorics.[1][2][3]
Martin Walter Liebeck | |
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Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Group theory Algebra Representation theory |
Institutions | Imperial College London |
Thesis | Finite Permutation Groups (1979) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Michael Neumann |
Doctoral students | Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro |
Martin Liebeck studied mathematics at the University of Oxford earning a First Class BA in 1976, an MSc in 1977, and a D.Phil. in 1979, with the Dissertation Finite Permutation Groups under Peter M. Neumann.[4]
In January 1991 he was appointed Professor at Imperial College London and became Head of the Pure Mathematics section there in 1997.[5] Liebeck has published over 150 research articles and 10 books.[6] His research interests include algebraic combinatorics, algebraic groups, permutation groups, and finite simple groups.[7]
He was elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2019, and was awarded the London Mathematical Society’s Pólya Prize in 2020.
In February of 2020 he and Colva Roney-Dougal[8] organized a programme titled "Groups, Representations and Applications" at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.[9]
Martin is the son of mathematician Hans Liebeck and mathematics educationalist Pamela Liebeck. His wife Ann is a professional musician, and they have two sons Jonathan and Matthew. Martin's main hobbies are playing tennis, especially doubles, and the violin, particularly chamber music.