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Benjamin has proved a longstanding problem about the limits of addition which Erdös posed in a 1965 paper.
You can read about his work showing how, in any set composed of integers, there's a large subset of numbers that must be sum-free, in this article from the excellent Quanta magazine.
Congratulations to Mike. He joins 31 other current and retired members of the department who are FRS.
Mike says, with the help of ChatGPT (humorous version): "Delighted to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. I plan to celebrate in the traditional scientific way: mild astonishment, followed by tea."