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 on maternity leave from 19 January 2009 for a year. I will still read email fairly regularly.

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. Soon afterwards Nick left to take up a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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 Algebra and Discrete Mathematics research group, which is part of the Department of Pure Mathematics.

Mathematical miscellanea

  • My Erdös number is 2. (Follow the link then click on either Erdos1 or Erdos2 and you'll find me in the file.)
  • My mathematical family tree. I am no longer a leaf!
  • My h-index computed using Google Scholar is 13; computed using Scopus is 9; computed using ISI Science Citations is 8; computed using MathSciNet is 7. (Updated September 2009.) So what is my h-index?
  • Combinatorics at UNSW.