Dr Stephen Muirhead – 2026 Christopher Heyde Medal

Dr Stephen Muirhead is an outstanding researcher in probability theory who has made important contributions to percolation theory (the study of how global connectivity in a material or network arises out of microscopic properties), stochastic geometry and random field theory. His work has resolved long-standing conjectures in the physics literature and pioneered a set of new techniques which are having a tremendous impact on the development of these fields.

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