Professor Michael Farber

Michael Farber is Professor of Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London.

Prior to Queen Mary, M. Farber held professorships at the Universities of Warwick, Durham and Tel Aviv. Michael Farber obtained his PhD and D.Sc. degrees in the USSR.

His research interests focus on applied and computational topology, topological robotics, applications of topology to statistics and computer science. M.Farber is involved in several collaborations: using topological methods in distributed computing in computer science, machine learning techniques in genomics and cancer research and using methods of stochastic topology for modelling brain connectivity. 

Michael Farber is the author of several monographs: Invitation to topological Robotics (EMS, 2008), Topology of closed one-forms (AMS, 2004), Topology and Robotics (AMS, 2007).

M. Farber was awarded many research grants, among them the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. 

One of his current research projects "Probabilistic and Deterministic Topology" is supported by the Leverhulme Trust.

M.Farber is Principal Investigator on the EPSRC research grant “Topology of automated motion planning” which is being implemented in partnership with the University of Chicago. 

PhD students: Lewin Strauss, Gabriele Beltramo, Lewis Mead.