Rate My Professor Mathew Bullimore

Professor Mathew Bullimore is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University. He earned an MPhys and DPhil in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford. After completing his doctorate, he held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2014 to 2015, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, and the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2017. Since 2017, he has been at Durham University, advancing to his current professorial role.

Bullimore's research focuses on the mathematical structures underlying quantum field theory, particularly supersymmetry and generalised symmetries. His interests include moduli spaces in supersymmetric gauge theories and their connections to representation theory and symplectic geometry. He leads a €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant from 2025 to 2030, developing mathematical foundations of generalised symmetries to uncover new principles in quantum systems and supporting three postdoctoral researchers and two PhD students. Previous honors include an EPSRC Fellowship from 2019 to 2024 (EP/T004746/1) on supersymmetric quantum field theory, membership in the Simons Collaboration on Global Categorical Symmetries from 2021 to 2025, and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2020. He supervises PhD students such as Christopher Tudball, Joe Marshall, and Sam Gunatilleke within the Mathematical and Theoretical Physics group.

Key publications encompass the monograph Scattering Amplitudes and Wilson Loops in Twistor Space (Springer, 2014) and highly cited papers including 'The Coulomb Branch of 3d N=4 Theories' (Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2017), 'Defects and Quantum Seiberg-Witten Geometry' (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015), 'Boundaries, Mirror Symmetry, and Symplectic Duality in 3d Gauge Theory' (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016), and recent contributions like 'Non-invertible Symmetries and Higher Representation Theory I and II' (SciPost Physics, 2024). His work has profoundly influenced the intersection of mathematics and theoretical physics, particularly in understanding three-dimensional supersymmetric theories.