The Society is pleased to announce that Professor Jens Marklof FRS has been nominated as President Elect of the London Mathematical Society.
Professor Marklof received his PhD in 1997 from the University of Ulm under the supervision of Frank Steiner. He held a Daimler-Benz postgraduate fellowship at Princeton University with Peter Sarnak FRS, and postdoctoral positions at Hewlett-Packard’s Research Labs, the Isaac Newton Institute, IHES, and the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques in Orsay. He joined the University of Bristol in 1999 as a Lecturer and was promoted to a Professorship in 2005. Major research awards during his time in Bristol include an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, and an ERC Advanced Grant. Professor Marklof served as Head of Pure Mathematics and Head of the School of Mathematics. In 2018 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science.
Jens Marklof’s research interests span diverse areas within pure and applied mathematics, with a focus on ergodic theory and dynamical systems, mathematical physics, and number theory. He is perhaps best known for his studies of the asymptotic distribution of quadratic forms and theta sums, the Berry-Tabor conjecture in quantum chaos, as well as the kinetic theory for particle transport in the Lorentz gas. Professor Marklof has received several prestigious honours for his work, including the LMS Whitehead Prize in 2010. In 2015, he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
After joining the London Mathematical Society in 2000, Professor Marklof has served on its Meetings Committee (2002-07), as Regional Organizer for the South-West and South Wales (2004-07), and on its Prizes Committee. He regularly contributes to advisory boards and committees of other organisations, including the Royal Society, the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research and the Leverhulme Trust.