New MSOR Postdoctoral Researchers

The School is delighted to welcome three new postdoctoral researchers.

Dr Alexander Melnikov received his two Phd's late 2012; one from Novosibirsk under the direction of Professor Sergei Goncharov, and the other from Auckland under the direction of Andre Nies and Bhakhadyr Khoussainov. He works in computability theory, specializing in computable algebra and analysis. He is here for a year on a postdoctoral fellowship to work with Professor Downey and Associate Professor Greenberg (and Dr Day when he arrives). In 2014 he will begin a 2 year fellowship at the University of California Berkeley.

Tanya Gvozdeva received her PhD from Auckland University in 2012 under the direction of Arkadii Slinko. She works in combinatorics and the mathematics of social choice. She is here for the year as a teaching fellow. She will accmpany Melnikov to Berkeley in 2014.

Rong Chen is a talented young matroid theorist who has a permanent position at Fuzhou University in China. She has been awarded a Fellowship from the Chinese government to spend one year visiting Victoria University and work with the matroid group here.