School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052, AUSTRALIA
email:     c.greenhill AT unsw.edu.au
phone:   +61 (0)2 9385 7105
fax:       +61 (0)2 9385 7123
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I am President of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia and I hold the June Griffith Fellowship for 2013. I am a Managing Editor of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.

Recent grants

  • Australian Research Council Discovery Project, "Extremal problems in hypergraph matchings" (2012 - 2014), with Ian Wanless (Monash) and Ron Aharoni (Technion).
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Project, "Illicit drug trafficking: the structure of illicit networks and implications for resilience and vulnerability" (2012 - 2013), with David Bright (UNSW), Alison Ritter (UNSW) and Carlo Morselli (Montreal).

Biography

My first degree was a B.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. I completed my B.Sc. in November 1991 and did an M.Sc. by research, supervised by Professor Anne Street. My M.Sc. thesis was on smallest defining sets of certain combinatorial designs.

Next stop was the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford. My doctorate was supervised by Dr. Peter Neumann. I was awarded my D.Phil. in 1996. My D.Phil. thesis was on algorithms related to the exterior square of matrices over finite fields.

My first postdoctoral position was held at the School of Computer Studies (now the School of Computing) of the University of Leeds. I was a research fellow from December 1996 until January 2000, working with Professor Martin Dyer as part of the Algorithms and Complexity group. Our research was supported in part by the ESPRIT Working Group RAND2. I held a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship from December 1998 until January 2000.

I left Leeds in January 2000, to move back to Australia. In February 2000 I took up an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mathematics Department of the University of Melbourne. I worked with Assoc. Prof. Nicholas Wormald, as part of the Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics research group, until the end of 2002.

Now I am a member of the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of New South Wales. I joined in January 2003 as a lecturer, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in July 2006. I am a member of the Combinatorics research group. I spent the first half of 2012 on sabbatical at Durham University, UK, as a member of the Algorithms and Complexity group.

In December 2012 we held the 36th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (36ACCMCC) at UNSW.

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