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Gerard Watts earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1990, under the supervision of Professor Peter Goddard. Following his doctoral studies, he completed postdoctoral research positions at institutions in Durham, Montreal, and Paris, while also holding a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1996, he joined King's College London with an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) fellowship. He quickly advanced through academic ranks, being appointed Lecturer in 2000, Reader in 2001, and subsequently promoted to Professor in 2017. Throughout his career, Gerard has secured various research grants from esteemed organizations including the EPSRC, European Union, Royal Society, and the London Mathematical Society. He has organized numerous workshops and conferences, particularly focused on the UK Integrable Conformal Field theory meetings since 1996. Gerard actively supervises PhD students and is keen to discuss potential research projects with interested students. His research interests encompass Conformal Field Theory, Integrable Quantum Field Theory, Infinite Dimensional Algebras, and Numerical Algebraic Approaches, specifically relating to renormalization group flows.
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