John Hubbuck

John Hubbuck is a topologist and emeritus professor at the University of Aberdeen, whose research centres on algebraic topology and related algebraic and number theoretic topics. The university's staff profile gives his qualifications as a Cambridge BA and an Oxford MA and DPhil and lists the post-nominals FRSA, FRSE and FIMA. The Mathematics Genealogy Project records that he took his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 1968 with a dissertation titled Some Problems in Algebraic Topology, written under Ioan Mackenzie James, and names among his own students Martin Crossley at Aberdeen in 1995, John Nunn at Oxford in 1978 and David Seppala-Holtzman at Oxford in 1979. The staff profile adds that he has been working with Japanese mathematicians on fundamental questions in homotopy theory first raised by Ganea in 1971, and with mathematicians in the United Kingdom on new questions in the invariant theory of finite groups.