The King has approved that Professor James Maynard FRS, Professor
of Number Theory at the Mathematical Institute, University of
Oxford, be appointed Regius Professor of Mathematics in the
University of Oxford in succession to Professor Sir Andrew Wiles.
Professor James Maynard
Professor Maynard took his BA and Part III' in Mathematics from
Queens' College, Cambridge in 2009, followed by a DPhil at Oxford
completed in 2013. He was then a Fellow by Examination at
Magdalen College, Oxford from 2013-17. He held a Clay Fellowship
at Oxford and has also held research and visiting positions at
Montreal, Berkeley and at the Institute of Advanced Study in
Princeton. Since 2018 he has been a Professor of Number Theory at
the University of Oxford and a member of St John's College.
He is known for this influential work in analytic number theory,
particularly on the distribution of prime numbers. He has
received numerous prizes including the Whitehead Prize from the
London Mathematical Society in 2015, the European Mathematical
Society Prize in 2016, the Cole Prize in Number Theory from the
American Mathematical Society in 2020, and the prestigious Fields
Medal from the International Mathematical Union in 2022 for his
contributions to analytic number theory, which have led to major
advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers
and in Diophantine approximation. He was elected to the Academia
Europaea in 2020, as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023 and as
a founding Fellow of the Academy of Mathematical Sciences in
2026.
