Scott Harper

I am an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. My general area of research is group theory: the mathematical study of symmetry. I am particularly interested in generating sets for groups (both finite and infinite) and the connections these have with permutation group theory. One recent highlight for me was my work with Tim Burness and Bob Guralnick where we answered the long-standing question: In which finite groups is every nontrivial element contained in a generating pair?

For more information, see my personal website harper-scott.github.io.