Professor Geordie Williamson elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Just 10 years after completing his doctorate, Professor Geordie Williamson has been recognised for his fundamental contribution to representation theory in mathematics. Professor Geordie Williamson from the School of Mathematics and Statistics has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the world's most prestigious and oldest continuously running scientific academy. He is one of 50 new Fellows from across the Commonwealth of Nations. He will attend a ceremony in London in July to accept his election, alongside South African engineer and inventor, Elon Musk. "This is a great honour," Professor Williamson said. "It came as a very pleasant surprise: it's the first scientific honour I became aware of as a child after the Nobel Prizes." It is unusual to be elected to the Royal Society under the age of 40. Professor Williamson is 36 and is now the Royal Society's youngest living fellow (if you choose not to include Prince William, a Royal Fellow, who is 35).