Chris Bowman

Dr Chris Bowman is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of York, supported by an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. His research focuses on the intersection of combinatorics, Lie theory, knot theory, and categorical representation theory, with a particular emphasis on symmetric groups, Cherednik algebras, and Kazhdan-Lusztig theory. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held postdoctoral positions at Paris and London. Bowman is a member of EPSRC’s Early Career Forum and organizes the UK-European Representation Theory and Categorification Network (RepNet). His work explores theoretical frameworks guided by machine learning techniques and addresses conjectures like Foulkes’ conjecture. He currently supervises PhD student Benjamin Mills and leads projects funded by the EPSRC.

• Education: BSc at York, PhD at Cambridge (2012)
• Postdoctoral roles: Paris 7, City University London (Royal Commission Fellowship), University of Kent

Research interests include diagrammatic algebra, Hecke categories, and representation theory of algebraic groups. His recent publications address plethysm coefficients, BGG resolutions, and modular decomposition numbers. Bowman has received prestigious awards, including the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Fellowship.

• Awards: EPSRC Early Career Fellowship, Royal Commission Fellowship

He collaborates widely, with projects on geometric and categorical Lie theory, and actively contributes to academic outreach through conferences and workshops.