Professor Bill Bruce

Professor Bill Bruce joined Edge Hill University in 2009 as Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for the University’s Academic portfolio.

After a PhD, a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Paris, and an SERC fellowship at Liverpool, Bill held positions at the Universities of Cork, Newcastle and Mount Holyoke College in the United States. He was appointed to a chair in pure mathematics at his alma mater, the University of Liverpool, in 1990. He served as head of mathematics for eight years, overseeing a unification of three departments and eight RAE submissions. He went on to become Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for the academic budget and learning and teaching, before joining the University of Hull as Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2004 where he was responsible for the academic provision, the budget and estates.

He has been on the scientific committee of a large number of international conferences and has over 100 research papers and five books to his name. Bill is a College Member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, chairing a range of panels and committees for them, was Vice-President of the London Mathematical Society 1999-2000, and serves on the management committee of the Isaac Newton Institute, the premier UK mathematics research centre in Cambridge.