Ben Green

Ben Joseph Green (born 27 February 1977 in Bristol, England) is a British mathematician who specialises in combinatorics and number theory. He won silver medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1994 and 1995, entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1995, and completed his degree in 1998 as Senior Wrangler. He earned his doctorate under Timothy Gowers with a thesis on arithmetic combinatorics in 2003, was a research fellow at Trinity College, became a professor at the University of Bristol in 2005, and was the first Herchel Smith Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 2006 to 2013. Since 1 August 2013 he has held the Waynflete Professorship of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford.