Raymond Flood

Raymond Gerard Flood is Emeritus Fellow and a member of the Continuing Education Department at Kellogg College, Oxford, and has been a Professor of Geometry at Gresham College.

Education Flood achieved a Bachelor of Science degree at Queens University, Belfast, and a master's degree at Linacre College, Oxford. He obtained his PhD from University College, Dublin. Flood obtained his doctorate through part-time study, as he had already acquired a family and a job.

Career In 1990, Flood was made a Founding Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, formally Rewley House. Kellogg College, Oxford was created to look after the interests of mature and part-time students. Flood primarily teaches those students who are either mature, or who study part-time. and also Research Associate in the School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

In August 2012, Flood was appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College for a period of three years, replacing John D. Barrow. During his term at the College he delivered series of free public lectures on Shaping Modern Mathematics, Applying Modern Mathematics, and Great Mathematicians, Great Mathematics.

Other research work and publications Aside from his academic work, Flood is active in communicating mathematics and its history to non-specialist audiences. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time and has lectured on transatlantic voyages with . The Great Mathematicians (Arcturus, 2011), and Mathematics in Victorian Britain (Oxford University Press, 2011).