He researches modular representation theory of finite groups and related questions of algebraic topology, representation theory of finite algebras and homological algebra.
Rickard received his PhD in 1988 from University College London under Aidan Schofield.
In 2002, he received the Senior Berwick Prize.
In 1998, he was an Invited Speaker with talk The abelian defect group conjecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.
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