Iain Gordon,

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, is a mathematician, currently Iain Gordon is Professor of Mathematics, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at the

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. His field of specialisation is representation theory and noncommutative algebra.

Education and career

Gordon studied mathematics as an undergraduate at the

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(1991–94), took Part III at

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, the

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(1994–95), and completed his PhD on ''Representations of Quantised Function Algebras at Roots of Unity'' at the

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under the supervision of Ken Brown (1995–1998). He was th
Seggie Brown Fellow
in Edinburgh (1998–99) and a postdoc at the

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, the

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and MSRI (1999–2000). He was a lecturer and then reader in the Department of Mathematics at the

(2000–2006), and since then has been the Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. In 2005, Gordon was awarded the

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of the

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for his article ''Baby Verma modules for rational Cherednik algebras''. In 2008 he was awarded a 5-year EPSRC Leadership Fellowship to support his research on ''Rigid Structure in Noncommutative, Geometric and Combinatorial Problems''. In 2010 he was elected as a Fellow of the

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and was an

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in Hyderabad on ''Rational Cherednik Algebras''. In 2014 he won the Edinburgh University Student Association's Van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science and Engineering. Since 2018, he has been the Principal Investigator on a 6-year EPSRC Programme Grant with Arend Bayer, Tom Bridgeland, Agata Smoktunowicz and Michael Wemyss on ''Enhancing Representation Theory, Noncommutative Algebra and Geometry''. He was elected as Vice President of the

in 2019.LMS Election Results 2019
/ref> He was Head of School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh between 2014 and 2021, at which point he was succeeded by Prof Bernd J Schroers. Gordon has been Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at the

since 2021.

References

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