Dimitri Leemans
Dimitri Leemans is a Belgian mathematician born in Uccle in 1972.Biography
Leemans obtained his Licence en Sciences Mathématiques at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1994 and his doctorate degree, under the supervision of Francis Buekenhout and Michel Dehon in 1998.
He is currently Professor and Head of Department at the mathematics department of the Faculty of Sciences of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He lived five years in New Zealand from 2011 until 2016 where he worked for the University of Auckland as an Associate Professor and came back to Belgium after experiencing problems with Immigration New Zealand because of his stepson's autism.Leemans's principal area of research is at the interface of algebra, computational mathematics, combinatorics and geometry. He has made major contributions in the study of regular and chiral polytopes whose automorphism groups are finite almost simple groups. He has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and two memoirs of the Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique. He is the developer of the Magma package on incidence geometry and coset geometry since 1999.- M.-E. Fernandes and D. Leemans, Polytopes of high rank for the symmetric groups. Adv. Math. 228, 3207-3222.
- P.J. Cameron, M.-E. Fernandes, D. Leemans and M. Mixer, Highest rank of a polytope for An, Proc. London Math. Soc. 115, 135-176.
- D. Leemans and M. W. Liebeck, Chiral polyhedra and finite simple groups, Bull. London Math. Soc. 49, 581-592.
- M.-E. Fernandes, D. Leemans and M. Mixer, An extension of the classification of high rank regular polytopes, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 370, 8833-8857.
- P. A. Brooksbank and D. Leemans, Rank reduction of string C-group representations. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 147, 5421-5426.
