I am a mathematician and Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Sustainable Logistics, working in the TransiT Research Hub and the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight at Heriot-Watt University. I am interested in how data may be used to accelerate the decarbonisation of the haulage sector, and the transport sector more widely.
My previous research is in pure mathematics (geometric group theory); see my publications page for more details.
Pronous: he/him
2024 - 2025: Assistant Professor in Sustainable Logistics, Heriot-Watt U.
2024 - 2025: Research Fellow, Heriot-Watt U.
2023 - 2024: Assistant Professor in Data Science, Heriot-Watt U.
2022 - 2023: Associate Lecturer in Mathematics, U. St Andrews
2018 - 2022: Postdoc, Heriot-Watt U.
I worked with Laura Ciobanu, on the EPSRC-funded project Equations in groups, formal languages and complexity.
2016 - 2018: Jack Research Fellow, U. Glasgow.
Funded by the William Jack Prize fund, for the most outstanding PhD student in Mathematics at the University of Glasgow over the preceeding 3 years.
2014 - 2016: Affiliate, U. Glasgow.
2009 - 2014: EPSRC-funded PhD Student, U. Glasgow.
Supervisors: Steve Pride and Tara Brendle.
2004-2009: MMath Mathematics (1st Class), University of St Andrews.
Between 2014 and 2016 I was teaching full time (across 3 standard 11 week terms, so no summer break!). For more details, see my teaching page.
Address: Esmée Fairbairn Research Centre, Heriot-Watt U., Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
Research email: alanlogan.X@gmail.com, where X=maths.
University email: Alan.Logan (at) hw (dot) ac (dot) uk