Academic Service

• Vice-Chair of Ethics Committee, European Mathematical Society (2024-); Member of Ethics Committee, European Mathematical Society (2023-24)

• Member of British Combinatorial Committee (BCC) (2024- present, 2011-17)

• Isaac Newton Institute Correspondent for the University of St Andrews (2017-)

• Member of the British Mathematical Colloquium (BMC) Scientific Committee (2014-)

• Chair of the Education Committee of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 2018-19; Member of the EdMS Education Committee (2011-19)

• Member of Editorial Board, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (2022-)

• Member of UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College (IAC) (assessing applications to the Cross Research Council Responsive Mode scheme), 2024-5

• Mathematics Panel co-chair, Academy of Finland, January 2023

• Reviewer for wide range of journals and research funders

• Member of the Learned Societies Group on Scottish STEM Education (LSG), Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) (2018-19)

• Chair of Maths Week Scotland Small Grants Fund 2019 committee (Scottish Government initiative) 2019

• Chair of East and Central Scotland Region Scottish Mathematical Challenge (2014-16)

• Struan McCartney: September 2024 - present

• Laura Johnson (2024): first supervisor. During her PhD, Laura was awarded the 2024 LMS Cecil King Travel Scholarship. Since October 2024, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol.

• Nseobong Uto (2021): second supervisor (first supervisor Rosemary Bailey).

• Anna Schroeder (2015): second supervisor (first supervisor Colva Roney-Dougal).

• Fiona Brunk (2009): joint supervisor (co-supervisor Nik Ruskuc).

• Organizer of mini-symposium on "Designs and Algebraic Combinatorics", British Combinatorial Conference 2024, QMUL, London.

• Co-organizer of the Scottish Combinatorics Meeting 2024, St Andrews.

• Member of Programme Committee, International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI 2024), Ottawa, Canada, 2024.

• Member of Scientific Committee, Fq14 International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications, Vancouver, 2019.

• Member of Local Organizing Committee, British Mathematical Colloquium, St Andrews, 2018.

• Co-organizer of the Scottish Combinatorics Meeting 2017, St Andrews.

• Member of Scientific Committee, Fq12 International Conference on Finite Fields and their Applications, Saratoga Springs, USA, 2015.

• Member of Local Organizing Committee, British Combinatorial Conference, St Andrews, 2009.

• Non-specialist account of my research by Iain Stewart appeared in New Scientist magazine (issue 24-30 March 2007)..