Dugald Macpherson

Hugh Dugald Macpherson (c. 1959) is a British mathematician who deals with model theory, infinite permutation groups and combinatorics.

Macpherson studied from 1977 mathematics and philosophy at Merton College, Oxford University and was there in 1983 59romoviert Peter Cameron (enumeration of orbits of Infinite Permutation Groups). Subsequently he was a post-doctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University, then did research at Cambridge (Junior Research Fellow and SERC Advanced Fellow ) and at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, where he was a Lecturer from 1992. He is since 1994 Lecturer, Reader since 1996 and as of 2001 professor of mathematical logic at the University of Leeds.

He conducts research on model theory weighted body of groups and finite structures and stability theory as well as on infinite permutation groups.

In 1997 he was awarded the Junior Berwick Prize.

Writings

• With Meenaxi Bhattacharjee, Rögnvaldur G. Möller Notes on Infinite Permutation Groups, Springer Verlag 1998
• With Deirdre Haskell, Ehud Hrushovski Stable domination and independence in algebraically closed valued fields, Cambridge University Press 2008
• Publisher Richard Kaye: automorphisms of first order structures, Oxford University Press 1994