Michael Magee (mathematician)
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Michael Magee is a Northern Irish mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at Durham University.[1]
Magee studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in 2007, and completed Part III the following year.[2] He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was supervised by Alexander Gamburd.[2] In 2022, Magee, working alongside his doctoral student Will Hide, confirmed the existence of a conjecture about complex surfaces dating back to 1984.[3]
He was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society in 2021, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2023.[4][5]
