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I work in the areas of operator theory and the geometry of Banach spaces. In particular my work concentrates on the relationships between functional calculus and integral representations for operators, and how this is affected by geometric properties of the spaces on which the operators act. My recent papers have been in collaboration with mathematicians in the USA, Britain, France and Australia.
Presently I am also the Chair of the Australian Mathematical Society's Review Committee.
Born and bred in Perth, Western Australia, I completed a BSc(Hons) in Pure Mathematics in 1982. After 2 years working as a mathematician and programmer for a surveying company I returned to study in 1984. I completed an MSc at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Peter Rosenthal in 1985 before going to Edinburgh to start a PhD with Alastair Gillespie. My PhD was awarded in 1988 for a thesis entitled "Well-bounded operators and the geometry of Banach spaces".
On completing my PhD I returned to Australia to a postdoctoral position at Macquarie University working with Alan McIntosh. In 1989 I was lured to the other side of Sydney to take up a lectureship at UNSW.
Since arriving at UNSW, I have got married to Jacqueline, been promoted, and have passed my eyes across more first year papers than I care to remember! Our family is now up to 6 with the arrivals of Joshua (1997), Matthew (2000), Shane (2003) and Leah (2007...spoiling the arithmetic progression).
Many of my publications are available on-line.