Staff Snapshot - Roozbeh Hazrat

A Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Roozbeh began his career in Europe before joining UWS just last year.

When did you start working at UWS and what was your first role?

After obtaining my PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Bielefeld, Germany in 2002, I did research at the Australian National University, Max Planck Institute in Bonn, IHES-Paris and the City University of New York.

I was a Reader (Associate Professor) in Pure Mathematics at Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom where I worked for 7 years, before moving to UWS in December 2011.

After obtaining my PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Bielefeld, Germany in 2002, I did research at the Australian National University, Max Planck Institute in Bonn, IHES-Paris and the City University of New York. I was a Reader (Associate Professor) in Pure Mathematics at Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom where I worked for 7 years, before moving to UWS in December 2011.

Describe your current role:

I teach pure Mathematics courses and I perform research in Algebra.

What’s the best thing about your job?

I think people whose hobbies become their jobs are quite fortunate. If I am not mistaken it was Bela Bollobas, a prominent mathematician, who once said, “I didn’t know they would also pay for what I love doing”.

I do pure Mathematics. This is my hobby that has become my job (I am talking about the actual part of doing Mathematics, not the administrative part). The working hours leak into your free hours and vice versa. It is quite common among mathematicians, who do their major work at home at night!

What do you love most about working at UWS?

I am quite new here and I am enjoying the atmosphere, colleagues and the campus. I also like the feel of the positive energy that UWS is moving forward. Certainly this is the present atmosphere in our group of mathematicians. The enthusiasm of wanting to establish our group nationally and internationally makes you want to be even more active.

I just finished teaching a course and I quite liked the amount of interaction I had with the students. I found the students friendly and some quite eager about Mathematics. We should invest in them.

The coffee machine we have in our school put that extra + on the top of the A I give to UWS!

What are you going to be working on in the next 12 months?

I am currently working on a monograph on graded methods in Algebra. Me being slow, and this being pure Mathematics, it is going to take more than 12 months to complete the work. I am also busy organising a two week workshop at ICTP, Italy on the classical K-theory. There are teams from Europe/UK, Indian, Iran, Russia, Vietnam and US taking part and giving focused talks. The coordination is proving to be more difficult than I anticipated. But things are moving forward!