Rate My Professor Mark Pollicott

Professor Mark Pollicott is Professor of Mathematics in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick. He received his BSc in Mathematics and Physics (First Class) in 1981, MSc in Mathematics (Distinction) in 1982, and PhD in Mathematics in 1984, all from the University of Warwick, with his doctoral work supervised by William Parry. His research centers on thermodynamic formalism as a branch of ergodic theory and dynamical systems, particularly its applications to hyperbolic and spectral geometry, number theory, fractal geometry, and analysis.

Throughout his career, Pollicott has held positions including New Blood Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (1984-1988), Investigador Auxiliar at I.N.I.C. in Porto, Portugal (1988-1992), Lecturer and then Reader at Warwick (1992-1995), Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester (1996-2004), and Professor of Mathematics at Warwick since 2004. He has been awarded prestigious fellowships such as the Royal Society University Research Fellowship (1992-1997 and 1998-1999), EPSRC Leadership Fellowship (2014-2019), and ERC Advanced Grant (2019-2024). Pollicott served as Executive Editor of Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (1994-1997 and 2005-2013) and holds positions on editorial boards including Nonlinearity (since 2018) and Journal of Fractal Geometry (since 2013). His major publications encompass books like Zeta functions and closed orbits for hyperbolic systems (1990, with W. Parry), Lectures on Pesin Theory and ergodic theory on manifolds (1992), Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory (1998, with M. Yuri), Equilibrium states in negative curvature (2015, with F. Paulin and B. Schapira), and Open Conformal Systems and Perturbations of Transfer Operators (2018, with M. Urbanski). Influential papers include An analogue of the prime number theorem for closed orbits of Axiom A flows (1983, with W. Parry, Annals of Mathematics). His contributions include pioneering Pollicott-Ruelle resonances and advancements in dynamical zeta functions for hyperbolic flows. He was an invited speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians, has supervised 13 PhD students, and mentored numerous postdoctoral researchers.