Mathematician and research software engineer

Hey. My name is Wilf Wilson. I am a mathematician, programmer, and many other things besides.

I currently work as a so-called Scientific Software Engineer at the UK's Met Office. I work in the part of the organisation that forecasts space weather. It's really interesting.

Before that, I worked as a research fellow with Professor Chris Jefferson, in the Computer Science department of the University of St Andrews.

My first job post-PhD was in 2018-2019, when I was a postdoctoral researcher in computational algebra, working with Professor Rebecca Waldecker at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

From 2014 until 2018 I was a PhD student at the Univeristy of St Andrews, supervised by Professor James D. Mitchell.

My interests

Currently I am particularly interested in

• computational algebra,
• semigroup theory,
• group theory,
• graph theory,
• combinatorics.