Jonathan Keating

Research and career

He lectured in applied mathematics at the University of Manchester from 1991 to 1995 before moving to the University of Bristol, as a reader in applied mathematics (1995–1997) and then as a professor in mathematical physics (1997–2012). He served as head of the Mathematics department (2001–2004) and was appointed to the Henry Overton Wills Chair in Mathematics at Bristol in 2012. His research has focused on quantum chaos, random matrix theory and its connection to number theory, especially the theory of the Riemann zeta-function and other L-functions. He is known for his work on the resummation of semiclassical periodic orbit formulae, the statistics of quantum energy levels, quantum maps, quantum graphs, the statistics of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function and other L-functions, and the moments of the Riemann zeta-function and other L-functions. He has served on the editorial boards of several peer reviewed scientific journals including:

• Member (1996–2004) of the editorial board of Journal of Physics A.
• Member (1997–2004) of the editorial board of Nonlinearity.
• Joint Editor-in-Chief (2004–2012) of Nonlinearity.
• Member (2003–2017) of the editorial board of Applied Mathematics Research Express.
• Member (2007–present) of the editorial board of Journal of Mathematical Physics.

He was the Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research until July 2020.

In September 2019, he succeeded John M. Ball as Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

In November 2019 he succeeded Caroline Series as president of the London Mathematical Society.

His doctoral students include Nina Snaith.