Rate My Professor David Robertson

Dr David Robertson is a Lecturer in Mathematics in the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England. He studied mathematics at the University of Newcastle, graduating with a Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) in 2007. He obtained his PhD from the University of Southern Denmark in 2011, with a thesis on the application of Cuntz-Pimsner algebras to non-commutative geometry under the supervision of Dr Wojciech Szymanski. Following his doctorate, he held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Wollongong and the University of Newcastle before joining the University of New England as a Lecturer in January 2020. He is a member of the Australian Mathematical Society and contributes to the Pure Mathematics research group at UNE.

Dr Robertson's research specializations lie in pure mathematics, particularly operator algebras, functional analysis, topological group theory, and category theory. His work focuses on the study and classification of C*-algebras using combinatorial data such as directed graphs, groups, semigroups, and categories. He teaches the postgraduate course on Measure Theory (MATH502) and has supervised one PhD student as well as several undergraduate research projects; he is open to supervising projects in related areas. Key publications include: Rennie, Adam; Robertson, David; Sims, Aidan. Poincaré duality for Cuntz–Pimsner algebras (2019, Advances in Mathematics, 347, pp. 1112-1172); Robertson, David; Rout, James; Sims, Aidan. KMS states on generalised Bunce-Deddens algebras and their Toeplitz extensions (2018, Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society, 41(1), pp. 123–157); Rennie, Adam; Robertson, David; Sims, Aidan. Groupoid Fell bundles for product systems over quasi-lattice ordered groups (2017, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 163(3), pp. 561–580); Brownlowe, Nathan; Pask, David; Ramagge, Jacqui; Robertson, David; Whittaker, Michael F. Zappa-Szép product groupoids and C∗-blends (2017, Semigroup Forum, 94(3), pp. 500–519); and Rennie, Adam; Robertson, David; Sims, Aidan. Groupoid algebras as Cuntz-Pimsner algebras (2017, Mathematica Scandinavica, 120(1), pp. 115–123). Earlier notable works include Simplicity of C*-algebras associated to higher-rank graphs (2007, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society) with A Sims, and Zappa–Szép products of semigroups and their C⁎-algebras (2014, Journal of Functional Analysis) with N Brownlowe, J Ramagge, and MF Whittaker.