Curriculum Vitae


Julia Wolf

Full name

Julia Wolf

Contact

Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge CB3 0WB
United Kingdom

Office: Pavilion C, 2.07
Office hours: by appointment

Email: first name dot last name
at dpmms dot cam dot ac dot uk
Phone: +44 (0)1223 337926
Fax: +44 (0)1223 765900

Employment

• 2022 - present: Professor of Pure Mathematics, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, UK
• 2018 - 2022: Associate Professor [until 2021: University Lecturer], Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, UK
• 2018 - 2022: Fellow (Class B), Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK
• 2013 - 2018: Heilbronn reader in combinatorics and number theory, University of Bristol, UK
• 2013 - 2015: Associate professor (with tenure), École polytechnique, Paris, France [on leave]
• 2010 - 2013: Hadamard associate professor, École polytechnique, Paris, France
• 2008 - 2010: Triennial assistant professor, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
• 2008 (autumn): Postdoctoral fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA
• 2008 (summer): SPUR mentor/MITES instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• 2007 - 2008: Member, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Education

• 2012: Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), examining committee: E. Breuillard, B. Green, E. Fouvry, H. Helfgott, B. Host, A. Plagne.
• 2003 - 2008: Ph.D., Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of W.T. Gowers, FRS.
• 2002 - 2003: Clare College, University of Cambridge: Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics with Distinction (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos).
• 1999 - 2002: Clare College, University of Cambridge: BA (Hons) Mathematics (First Class).

Visiting positions

• 2025 (spring): Research Professorship, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley
• 2024: Centre for Advanced Mathematics, American University of Beirut
• 2022 (winter): Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
• 2017 (spring): Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley
• 2013 (autumn): Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley
• 2011 (autumn): Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna
• 2011 (spring): Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
• 2006 (spring): Visiting graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA, under the supervision of B.J. Green
• 2005 (autumn): Pre-doc position at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, with O. Serra. Sponsored by the EU Marie Curie Research Training Network COMBSTRU

Awards, honours and distinctions

• 2024: Pilkington Prize, University of Cambridge
• 2024: Atiyah Fellowship, London Mathematical Society
• 2020: Forder Lectureship, New Zealand and London Mathematical Society
• 2016: Anne Bennett Prize, London Mathematical Society
• 2015: Shortlisted as 1 in 3 for Outstanding Teaching Award in the Faculty of Science, University of Bristol
• 2008: Hartley Rogers Jr. Prize, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2003: Robins Prize, Clare College, University of Cambridge
• 2002: Harry Paten Scholarship in Mathematics and Owst Prize for Mathematics, Clare College, University of Cambridge

External funding

• 2020: Clay Mathematics Institute Enhancement Programme, with G. Conant and C. Terry.
• 2020: Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research Focused Research Group Grant, with G. Conant and C. Terry.
• 2016: Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research Focused Research Grant, with T. Bloom.
• 2015: semester-long research programme on Pseudorandomness at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, to be held Spring 2017, with J. Fox, B. Green, R. Impagliazzo, L. Trevisan and D. Zuckerman
• 2014: LMS conference grant "Celebrating new appointments".
• 2012 - 2015: ANR programme Blanc CAESAR, with E. Breuillard, A. Granville, H. Helfgott, A. Plagne et al.
• 2003 - 2007: Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Languages

• Human: English, French, and German fluent, working Spanish and Italian, basic Arabic. Latin diploma.
• Programming: Mathematica, C, and enough HTML, PHP and JavaScript to maintain this website.

Publications

For a list of my publications, please see my publications page.

Organisation of seminars and conferences

• Co-organiser of the workshop "Structure and Randomness - a celebration of the mathematics of Timothy Gowers", Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, April 2024, with D. Conlon, B. Green, T. Sanders, M. Walters, A. Zsák.
• Co-organiser of the workshop "Combinatorics Meets Model Theory", 20th-24th June 2022, with G. Conant and C. Terry.
• Organiser of a Mini-Symposium on "Additive Combinatorics" at the British Combinatorial Conference, 29th July-2nd August 2019.
• Co-organiser of an AMS Special Session on "Recent Advances in Regularity Lemmas", 16th-17th January 2019, with G. Conant and R. Patel.
• Co-organiser of "Arithmetic Ramsey Theory in Manchester", 10th-13th September 2018, with J. Fox and S. Prendiville.
• Co-organiser (chair) of a semester-long research programme on "Pseudorandomness" at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, to be held Spring 2017, with J. Fox, B. Green, R. Impagliazzo, L. Trevisan and D. Zuckerman.
• Co-organiser of a Heilbronn Focused Research Group on "Recent breakthroughs using the polynomial method", 19th-23rd September 2016, with T. Bloom.
• Co-organiser of the BMC 2016 Special Session in Combinatorics, with T. Bloom.
• Co-organiser "Combinatorics meets ergodic theory", workshop at Banff International Research Station, 20th-24th July 2015, with B. Kra and N. Frantzikinakis.
• Co-organiser Bristol-Oxford 1-day meeting in additive combinatorics, University of Bristol, biannually since September 2014, initially supported by a Celebrating New Appointments grant of the LMS, now with B. Green and T. Browning.
• Co-organiser (chair) of the workshop "Finding Algebraic Structures in Extremal Combinatorial Configurations" at IPAM, Los Angeles, 19th-23rd May 2014, with E. Breuillard, B. Green, J. Solymosi and T. Tao.
• Co-organiser of the workshop "Neo-classical methods in discrete analysis" at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, 2nd-6th December 2013, with L. Trevisan.
• Co-organiser of the international conference "Additive Combinatorics in Paris" at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, 9th-13th July 2012, with A. Plagne, E. Balandraud, B. Girard and W. Schmid.
• Co-organiser of the 1-day colloquium "Journée Combinatoire et Informatique" at École polytechnique, 4th July 2012, with B. Charron-Bost.
• Organiser "Groupe de travail en combinatoire arithmetique", IHP, 2011-2013.
• Co-organiser of the Discrete Math Seminar at Rutgers, spring and autumn 2009, together with V. Vu.
• Co-organiser of the Analysis Seminar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Spring 2008, together with T. Sanders.

Seminar talks, colloquia and conference presentations

For a list of all invited seminar talks, colloquia and conference presentations have given, please see my talks page.

Research supervision

• 2023 - present: supervising doctoral student Joe Deakin, University of Cambridge.
• 2020 - present: supervising doctoral student Leo Versteegen, University of Cambridge.
• 2019 - present: supervising doctoral student Valeriia Gladkova, University of Cambridge.
• 2014 - 2018: supervised doctoral students L. Rimanic and P.-Y. Bienvenu, University of Bristol.
• 2014 - 2018: mentored Heilbronn fellows B. Barber, T. Bloom, and F. Skerman, University of Bristol.
• 2014: supervised undergraduate summer research project of A. Saad, University of Bristol.
• 2013: supervised masters thesis of P.-Y. Bienvenu (Master 2), Ecole normale supérieure.
• 2012 - 2013: mentored postdoc P. Candela, joint with H. Helfgott.
• 2012: supervised stage de recherche of E. Naslund (Master 1) at Ecole polytechnique; results of this project were presented at the CMS Winter Meeting 2012 and won a graduate student poster prize.
• 2008: supervised research projects of C. Link and Y. Lin at MIT as part of the "Summer Program in Undergraduate Research" (SPUR); both received a departmental award and one resulted in a peer-reviewed publication.

Research degree examination

• 2023: external Ph.D. examiner of D. Altman, University of Oxford.
• 2021: external Ph.D. examiner of B. Kuca, University of Manchester.
• 2021: external assessor of the habilitation thesis of O. Roche-Newton, University of Linz.
• 2020: member of the doctoral thesis committee of D. González-Sánchez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
• 2020: external Ph.D. examiner of J. Aaronson, University of Oxford.
• 2016: external Ph.D. examiner of P. Mazur, University of Oxford.
• 2014: internal Ph.D. examiner of T. Bloom, University of Bristol.
• 2013: external Ph.D. examiner of O. Roche-Newton, University of Bristol.
• 2012: member of the doctoral thesis committee of N. de Saxcé, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay).

Teaching

For more details on individual courses, please access my teaching pages via the menu.

• In Lent 2024, I taught Introduction to Additive Combinatorics in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos.
• In Michaelmas 2021, 2022 and 2023, I taught Numbers and Sets in Part IA of the Mathematical Tripos.
• In Easter 2021, I taught a graduate course on "Higher-order uniformity and applications".
• In Lent 2019 I taught a graduate course on "Connections between model theory and combinatorics".
• In Michaelmas 2019 and 2020 I taught Number Theory in Part IIC of the Mathematical Tripos.
• In the autumn of 2015 I designed and taught a new 3rd year project unit entitled "Ramsey theory on the integers" at the University of Bristol; nominated by the School of Mathematics for a University teaching award.
During the academic year 2015-2016 I had curriculum oversight and overall responsibility for 3rd/4th year undergraduate course "Topics in discrete mathematics" at the University of Bristol, taught by Heilbronn research fellows.
• During the spring semester 2015 I designed and taught a new 2nd year undergraduate course in "Combinatorics" at the University of Bristol; shortlisted for a student-led teaching award in the Faculty of Science.
• During the autumn semester 2014 I designed and taught a new graduate course entitled "Analysis of points and lines" at the University of Bristol, as part of the Taught Course Centre, transmitted live to Oxford, Imperial, Bath and Warwick.
• During the spring semester 2014 I taught a 1st year undergraduate course entitled "Further topics in analysis" at the University of Bristol, as well as weekly small-group tutorials in pure mathematics.
• During the autumn semester 2013 I taught a graduate course entitled "Introduction to additive combinatorics" at the University of Bristol, as part of the Taught Course Centre.
• In the spring semesters 2012 and 2013 I designed and taught a new graduate course (Master 1) at École polytechnique entitled "Mathématiques discrètes, combinatoire arithmétique et codes (MAT562)". Over the two semesters I supervised a total of 9 accompanying reading projects (of Part III-essay type).
• In the spring semester 2011 I taught Petites Classes for "Analyse Réelle et Complexe (MAT311)" at École polytechnique.
• In the autumn semester 2010 I taught Petites Classes for "Distributions, Fourier Analysis and Dynamical Systems (MAT431)".
• During the summers of 2008 and 2010 I taught "Advanced (multivariable) Calculus" in the program Minority Introduction To Science and Engineering (MITES) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• During the spring semester 2010 I designed and taught a graduate course entitled "Topics in Probability and Ergodic Theory: Arithmetic structure in the integers and the primes (592)" at Rutgers.
• During the spring and autumn semesters 2009 I taught "Mathematical Theory of Probability (477) and Calculus II for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (152)" at Rutgers.

College teaching

• 2021 - 2022: Numbers and Sets (IA), Analysis and Topology (IB)
• 2020 - 2021: Groups (IA), Numbers and Sets (IA), Analysis (IA), Complex Analysis (IB)
• 2019 - 2020: Groups (IA), Complex Analysis (IB), Number Theory (IIC)
• 2018 - 2019: Groups (IA), Complex Analysis (IB)
• 2003 - 2007: Analysis I (IA), Probability (IA), Analysis II (IB).

Public engagement

• 2020: Forder Lectures, various locations, New Zealand.
• 2019: Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture, University of Oxford.
• 2018: British Mathematics Colloquium public lecture, University of St Andrews.
• 2017: Annual Coulter McDowell Lecture, Royal Holloway.
• 2016: LMS Popular Lectures, London and Birmingham.
• 2015: Ada Lovelace Day public lecture and interview with Bristol 24/7.
• 2012: Images des Mathématiques, CNRS.
• 2011: La nuit des chercheurs, Ecole polytechnique.
• 2009: Pi-Club, Rutgers University.
• 2009: Mathematical Ideas and Careers Lecture series, Rutgers University.
• 2004: Dilettante Society, Clare College, with Sir N. Barrington.

Widening participation

• 2018: PROMYS lecture, University of Oxford.
• 2016: Women in mathematics: Opportunities for the future, University of Bristol.
• 2014: Prospects in Mathematics, University of Oxford.

Refereeing and reviewing

• 2021 - present: Editor of the Journal de Théorie des Nombres
• 2017 - present: Associate Editor of the Journal of Combinatorics
• 2015 - 2023: Founding editor of the arXiv overlay journal Discrete Analysis
• 2013 - present: Editor of the Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics.
• 2016 - 2021: Member of the editorial board of Integers.
• Reviewer for mathscinet (41) and Zentralblatt MATH (22).
• Referee for various journals, including Duke Math. J., Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Adv. Math., Math. Res. Lett., Int. Math. Res. Not., Israel J. Math., J. Anal. Math., Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., Glasg. Math. J., Collect. Math., Electron. Res. Annouc. Math. Sci., Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc., Forum Math. Sigma, Ann. Comb., Finite Fields Appl., J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, J. Comb., Electron. J. Combin., Combinatorica, SIAM J. Comput., Des. Codes Cryptogr., J. ACM.
• Referee and panel member for various grant agencies, including EPSRC, US National Security Agency, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation and the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education.

Other professional activities

• 2022 - present: Chair of the British Combinatorial Committee
• 2021 - present: Elected member of the British Combinatorial Committee
• 2018 - 2023: Director of Taught Postgraduate Education, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
• 2019 - 2021: Member of the External Advisory Board, Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, University of Bristol.
• 2015 - 2018: Associate Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, University of Bristol.
• 2016: Co-author of EPSRC landscape document in Combinatorics, with D. Kuhn and D. Kral.
• 2012 - 2013: Coordinator "stages de recherche" for the masters MAT-INF at École polytechnique.
• 2012 - 2015: Elected member of the Comité de département at École polytechnique.
• 2012 - 2015, 2015 - 2018: Elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
• Member of the London Mathematical Society and European Women in Mathematics.

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