School of Mathematics

Professor Michael Rathjen
Postgraduate Research Tutor - Pure Mathematics

I coordinate the postgraduate research student admissions process for Pure Mathematics, including finding a supervisor for every applicant, making decisions on who we make offers to and how to distribute funding.
I also share overall responsibility for the postgraduate programme in mathematics with the other postgraduate research tutors in the School of Mathematics.

Oversight of our postgraduate research programme is only a part of my work at Leeds; I also have a research group and teach  undergraduate and postgraduate courses. My research is in the area of mathematical logic, specifically proof theory and constructive set theory. A central theme of proof theory is the classification of theories by means of transfinite ordinals that measure their 'consistency strength' and 'computational power'.

Tel +44 (0)113 3435109
M.Rathjen@leeds.ac.uk