Dr Alan Barnes (b1947)
Alan Barnes was educated at the King’s School. He went on to obtain a BSc in Pure and Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London in 1968, followed by a PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1972, working on Classical General Relativity and Cosmology under Professor G. J. Whitrow.
From 1971 to 1973 he held a Turner & Newall Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1973–74 he completed a Postgraduate Certificate of Education at Bingley College in West Yorkshire, and then held a postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin from 1974 to 1977.
Alan joined Aston University in 1977 as a Lecturer in Mathematics, later transferring to Computer Science in 1987. While on leave from Aston in autumn 1987 he worked at KTH in Stockholm, and from January to summer 1988 he carried out research in Computer Algebra at the University of Bath.
He retired from full-time work in 2006, continued part-time in Computer Science for several years, and fully retired from Aston University in 2014.
His research interests include computer algebra and its applications, as well as classical general relativity and cosmology. Since retiring he has continued to work on research in classical general relativity and has contributed to the REDUCE Computer Algebra website on SourceForge.
Alan is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) and a Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP). He is also a life member of the Australasian Society for Gravitation and Relativity and of the International Society of General Relativity & Gravitation, and an honorary life member of the Sociedad Española de Gravitación y Relatividad (SEGRE).
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