Sir Martin Taylor to be next Warden of Merton
10 Nov 09
Sir Martin Taylor, FRS, currently professor of pure mathematics at the University of Manchester and Vice-President and Physical Secretary of the Royal Society, is to be the next Warden of Merton College.
He will take up the wardenship on 1 October 2010, succeeding Professor Dame Jessica Rawson.
‘I am greatly honoured and excited to be chosen as the next Warden of a college with such an outstanding academic record,’ says Professor Taylor. ‘I especially look forward to leading the College into its 750th anniversary; this will provide an opportunity to celebrate, and to make more widely known, the college's many achievements.’
Professor Taylor has been a professor of pure mathematics at Manchester since he moved from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986.
His early research concerned various properties and structures of algebraic numbers, and in 1981 he proved the Fröhlich Conjecture. Recently, his work has involved the study of various aspects of arithmetic geometry.
Sir Martin was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize in 1982 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996. He became President of the London Mathematical Society in 1998.
Dame Jessica will stay in Oxford to conduct research in Chinese archaeology.