Professor James Maynard FRS

James Maynard is Professor of Number Theory at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford. He was an undergraduate in Cambridge, did his DPhil in Oxford, and has done postdoctoral work in Montreal, Berkeley, Princeton and Oxford before joining the faculty at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.

Professor Maynard was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal in 2022, the highest honour a young mathematician can attain and especially hard to win as the medals are only awarded every four years to mathematicians under the age of forty.

James's main research interest is in analytic number theory, particularly the distribution of prime numbers. In his research he uses a blend of ideas from analysis, combinatorics and algebra to try to answer old questions in number theory.