Dr Peter Donovan, now semi-retired, has publications in algebraic geometry (localisation at fixed points), algebraic topology (related to geometrical physics), representation theory (including the first non-trivial progress towards a key finiteness conjecture in the modular representation theory of finite groups), homological algebra, and the insecurity of Japanese naval ciphers in WW2. Currently his interests are returning to modular representation theory and geometrical physics.

Dr Donovan is a member of the Mathematical Physics and Algebra and Number Theory research groups.