Emmanuel Breuillard, the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics in Cambridge, has been appointed to the Professorship of Pure Mathematics in Oxford starting on 1 January 2022. Held by Professor Roger Heath-Brown FRS from its inception in 1999 until his retirement in 2016, the Professorship of Pure Mathematics is one of the most prestigious statutory positions in Oxford. Professor Breuillard will be a fellow of Worcester College.
Emmanuel Breuillard is an exceptionally broad mathematician with diverse interests intersecting with those of half a dozen research groups here in the Mathematical Institute in Oxford including Geometry, Number Theory and Combinatorics. His many research accomplishments include uniform versions of the celebrated Tits alternative in group theory, structure theorems for approximate groups in various settings, new results about Bernoulli convolutions, and greater understanding of random polynomials with +/- 1 coefficients.
He won a European Mathematical Society Prize in 2012 and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. We very much look forward to his arrival.