Alexander Scott (British academic)

As a sixteen year old schoolboy, Scott wrote the role-playing game Maelstrom for Puffin Books.^[2] He took his first degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining first class honours.

From 1993 to 1997, Scott was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated PhD in 1995.^[3] His dissertation, titled "Unavoidable Induced Subgraphs", was supervised by Béla Bollobás.^[4] From 1996 to 2001 he was lecturer in mathematics at University College, London, then Reader there from 2001 to 2005. In 1997 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Memphis. In 2005 he was elected as a fellow and appointed as Dominic Welsh Tutor in Mathematics at Merton College, Oxford, then in 2006 became Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford. ^[3][1]