Nicholas Higham#
| Membership Number: | 4191 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998- Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Manchester
- 1996-1998 Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Manchester
- 1992-2006 Reader, University of Manchester
- 1992 (winter quarter) Senior visitor at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
- 1989-2002 Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
- 1988-1989 Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
- 1985-1996 Lecturer, University of Manchester
Fields of Scholarship
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical linear algebra
- Numerical algorithms
- Mathematical software
Honours and Awards
- 2011-2016 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2009 Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- 2008 Fröhlich Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 2007 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2003-2008 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 1999 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
- 1999 Junior Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society
- 1991 Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship
- 1988 Leslie Fox Prize. (International prize for numerical analysts under 31)
- 1987 Alston S. Householder Award VI. (International prize for best Ph.D. thesis in numerical algebra 1984-1987)
