Congratulations to Ed Crane on his promotion to Associate Professor.  This excellent academic achievement reflects Ed’s leadership within the discipline and his contributions across the School of Mathematics and the Heilbronn Institute.

After receiving his PhD from Cambridge, and a brief period as a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford, Ed joined the Heilbronn Institute in 2005 as a Research Fellow.  His current work is mostly in probability theory, though he has retained some interests in geometric function theory and complex analysis, which was his main research area for the first decade of his career.  Now he is mainly interested in combinatorial probability, for example urn models, random walks, and dynamic random graphs.  Ed is one of the organisers of the Probability, Analysis and Dynamics (PAD) conference, held at the University of Bristol once every 4 years with outstanding speakers including Hugo Duminil-Copin, Alessio Figalli and Martin Hairer, to name a few.