Dr Sophie Huczynska

Dr Sophie Huczynska

Reader

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3711
Email
sh70@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
312 MI
Location
Mathematical Institute

 

Biography

I joined the School in 2003, having obtained my PhD at the University of Glasgow and worked as a researcher at the University of Edinburgh.  I held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship from 2004-2010, before becoming a Lecturer in 2010, Senior Lecturer in 2015 and Reader in 2023.  I have worked part-time since 2008.

Research areas

My research interests are in the area of combinatorics and finite fields. I enjoy exploring a wide range of topics in these areas, including:

  • structure theory of finite fields (including primitive and normal polynomials)
  • existence and construction of difference structures such as partial difference sets and external difference families, using techniques such as cyclotomy and finite geometry
  • application of combinatorial structures to coding theory and cryptography
  • questions in additive combinatorics involving sumsets and additive tuples
  • study of combinatorial objects such as graphs, digraphs and permutations viewed as relational structures.

More information about my research may be found on my personal website https://shuczynska.github.io/index.html

PhD supervision

  • Struan McCartney
  • Yayi Zhu

Selected publications

 

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