| Places
I have worked |
University of
Glasgow (1984-1988)
 |
I did my first degree in the Department
of
Mathematics at the University
of Glasgow ,
graduating in 1988. When planning your trip to trace my past,
leave plenty of time to explore Glasgow,
a pure dead brilliant place. Just in case your ignorance knows
no bounds, Glasgow is the largest (but not the capital) city
in Scotland
. |
Royal
Holloway
(1988-1992)
 |
I emigrated to England (more
precisely to Englefield
Green) to study my PhD in the Mathematics Department
at Royal Holloway, which was then called Royal
Holloway and Bedford New College
(RHBNC). My thesis was titled Discrete Structures in the
Theory of Secret Sharing (there
is a deeply unimpressive pun in that title which perhaps
only mathematicians will notice, but blame Whit Diffie as
he indirectly suggested it) and was supervised by Prof. Fred Piper. I thought I had
succeeded in escaping from Royal Holloway in April 1992,
but it was not to be... |
University
of
Adelaide (1992-1996)
 |
I spent four years doing hard
labour in Australia. I was employed as an ARC
Research Associate in the Pure Mathematics
Department of the University
of Adelaide . The
fine city of Adelaide is the capital of South Australia, allegedly the driest state of
the driest continent in the world. I like being dry.. |
Katholieke
Universiteit
Leuven (1996-1999)
 |
In November 1996 I unexpectedly
became a Belgian. It can happen to anyone who is not careful.
I was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the research group COSIC (but don't confuse them with COSIC, although at times the
similarities are uncanny) in the Electrical Engineering
Department
(yes-really!) of the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven in
the very fine Flemish city of Leuven.
Leuven is somewhere around the middle of a strange "tortilla
chip" shaped country called Belgium, to whom I have dedicated
this
page. |
Royal Holloway (2000-20??)
|
In January 2000 I returned to
Royal Holloway to take up my current position (sitting, facing
terminal, slightly hunched over keypad). I became a Reader,
which at least had a clear job description, but am now a
Professor. I am still trying to work out what "professing"
means... |
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