Dr. John Bamberg

Biography

John Bamberg grew up in the Kinglake area of Victoria, Australia. He attended Yea High School and later completed his Bachelor of Science with Honours majoring in pure mathematics at La Trobe University. He moved to the University of Western Australia (UWA) to pursue his PhD under the guidance of Cheryl Praeger and Tim Penttila. From 2004 to 2006, he held a postdoctoral research position funded by an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship at UWA, and subsequently spent three years at Ghent University in Belgium as a Research Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow. Bamberg returned to UWA and served as a Research Fellow from 2009 to 2012 and as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow from 2012 to 2016. He became an Associate Professor at UWA in 2016. His research interests focus on finite geometry, group actions, and algebraic combinatorics. He is actively involved in academic roles, including serving as the Graduate Research Coordinator for Physics, Mathematics, and Computing, and as a Research Integrity Advisor at UWA. He is also a managing editor of Combinatorial Theory and Advances in Geometry, with editorial board memberships in various combinatorial journals. Bamberg has contributed to significant research projects in permutation groups and geometric configurations, collaborating with prominent researchers in the field.

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