Professor Eamonn O'Brien

Eamonn O'Brien is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Auckland. His research interests are in group theory, with a particular focus on the development, implementation and application of effective algorithms for their study. He is the author of about 100 research papers and two books.  Many of his research outputs are incorporated into the leading computational algebra systems GAP and Magma. Eamonn obtained his PhD from the Australian National University in 1988. He was a Research Fellow at the ANU and a Humboldt Research Fellow at RWTH University of Aachen before joining Auckland in 1997.  Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2009 and awarded its 2020 Hector Medal, he is a recipient of a 2024 Humboldt Foundation Research Award. Eamonn is managing editor of the Journal of Algebra (Computational Section), and is a member of two other editorial boards.

For more information, see Professor O'Brien's University of Auckland webpage.