Martin van BeekĀ is a Heilbronn Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. His main research interest is finite group theory and its interactions with other areas of mathematics, such as algebraic topology and representation theory. He is fascinated by the study of p-local structure in finite groups, and how to use this data to garner useful global information. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, where he also completed his PhD.