| School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham |
Dr. Richard MycroftSenior Lecturer in MathematicsEmail: r.mycroft @ bham.ac.ukOffice: Room 107, Watson Building (R15 on the Campus map) |
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Combinatorics, Probability and Algorithms at Birmingham
My Publications and Preprints
My Research
My research interests lie in the field of combinatorics, and more specifically in the area of extremal graph theory. In particular I have worked extensively on embedding problems relating to hypergraphs and directed graphs. From 2018 to 2023 my programme of research was supported by a £295k EPSRC Standard Grant for a project titled `Properties of Extremal and Random Hypergraphs'; previously my research was supported from 2015 to 2017 by a £124k EPSRC First Grant for a project titled `Embeddings in Hypergraphs'.I began my research career with PhD study at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Deryk Osthus and co-supervised by Daniela Kühn; my doctoral thesis, submitted in 2010, was titled "The regularity method for directed graphs and hypergraphs". I then held a position for one year as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Peter Keevash at Queen Mary, University of London, before returning to the University of Birmingham to take up a lectureship in June 2011. In 2017 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer.
I am currently supervisor for Allan Flower and Camila Zárate-Guerén, both third-year PhD students at the University of Birmingham. Prior to this I was PhD supervisor for Frederik Garbe from 2014 to 2018, Tássio Naia from 2014 to 2018 and Amarja Kathapurkar from 2018 to 2022. I have also worked with three postdoctoral researchers funded by my EPSRC grants: Dr Andrew McDowell in 2016-17, Dr Maryam Sharifzadeh in 2020 and Dr Amarja Katharpurkar in 2022-23. I am always keen to hear from talented students who are interested in PhD research; please do get in touch if you would like further information.
Last updated: July 2025