Things I like
- Maths
- Physics
- Languages
- Cats
- Straume (2024)
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969)
- Music
- Cooking
- Teaching
- Travel
- Web design
Research interests (subject to change)
- Knot theory, its generalisations, and connections to physics
- Finite type invariants
- Lie theory
- Quantisation
Friends and colleagues who also have websites
- Damian Lin
- Max Charles
- Max Mikkelsen
- Lewis Combes
- Joseph Newton
- Zsuzsanna Dancso
- Aija Draguns
- Finn Thompson
- Marcy Robertson
- Djordje Mihajlovic
Countries visited (41), in order of first visit
- 🇦🇺 Australia (born)
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand (2004?, 2024)
- 🇸🇬 Singapore (???, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, ..., 2019, 2025)
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia (?, 2025)
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia (2004?, 2010?, ...?)
- 🇨🇳 China (2005?)
- 🇰🇷 South Korea (2005?)
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam (2009, 2023, 2025)
- 🇫🇷 France (2009, 2015, 2017)
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland (2010, 2015)
- 🇮🇹 Italy (2010, 2015, 2024)
- 🇻🇦 Vatican City (2010, 2024)
- 🇹🇭 Thailand (2012)
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia (2013)
- 🇩🇪 Germany (2015, 2016-2017)
- 🇦🇹 Austria (2015, 2017)
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye (2015, 2022)
- 🇸🇪 Sweden (2017, 2019)
- 🇧🇪 Belgium (2017)
- 🇯🇵 Japan (2017)
- 🇷🇺 Russia (2019)
- 🇫🇮 Finland (2019)
- 🇪🇪 Estonia (2019, 2022)
- 🇱🇻 Latvia (2019, 2020-2021, 2022, 2024)
- 🇬🇷 Greece (2020, 2025)
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (2020)
- 🇷🇴 Romania (2020)
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania (2020, 2024)
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine (2021)
- 🇪🇸 Spain (2021-2022)
- 🇲🇦 Morocco (2021)
- 🇵🇹 Portugal (2021)
- 🇵🇱 Poland (2021, 2024)
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (2022)
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia (2024)
- 🇨🇿 Czechia (2024)
- 🇮🇳 India (2025)
- 🇦🇱 Albania (2025)
- 🇲🇪 Montenegro (2025)
- 🇷🇸 Serbia (2025)
- 🇭🇺 Hungary (2025)
Languages known, in descending order of competence
- 🇦🇺 English (native)
- 🇱🇻 Latvian (~B2)
- 🇷🇺 Russian (quite rusty now)
- 🇩🇪 German (quite rusty now)
- A few others at varying sub-conversational levels
Musical instruments played, in descending order of competence
- 🎸 Guitar
- 🎤 Voice (baritone/tenor)
- 🐟 Bass
- 🪗 Piano accordion
Editions of The Very Hungry Caterpillar owned
Translations (19), in order of acquisition
- English: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- German: Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt
- Japanese: はらぺこあおむし
- Swedish: Den mycket hungriga larven
- French: La Chenille qui fait des trous
- Russian: Очень голодная гусеница
- Spanish (European): La Pequeña Oruga Glotona
- Latvian: Ēdelīgais kāpuriņš
- Persian:
- Arabic: الدودة شديدة الجوع
- Italian: Il piccolo Bruco Maisazio
- Polish: Bardzo głodna gąsienica
- Ukrainian: Дуже голодна гусениця
- Lithuanian: Labai alkanas vikšrelis
- Maori: Te Anuhe Tino Hiakai
- Chinese: 好餓的毛毛蟲
- Greek: Μια καμπια πολυ πεινασμενη
- Serbian: Веома гладна гусеница
- Hungarian: A telhetetlen hernyócska
If you are visiting somewhere that speaks a language not yet on the above list and can obtain the local Hungry Caterpillar for me, I would be delighted if you contacted me :)
Other
- Spinoff: All about the Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Spinoff: The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Peekaboo Easter
- Spinoff: The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Christmas 123
- Spinoff: The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Christmas Library
- Spinoff: I Love Mum with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Parody: The Very Hungry Zombie
- Parody: The Very Hungover Caterpillar
- Attended The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show in 2019 and 2023
- Merchandise: T-shirt, two pins, enamel mug, numbers 1-10 poster, scarf crocheted by my lovely girlfriend, crocheted caterpillar, ...
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