The Department of Mathematics at Ohio State is happy to announce the appointment of John Johnson as an assistant professor. Johnson is interested in the interplay between the algebraic structure of the Stone-Čech compactification, dynamics and combinatorics related to Ramsey theory. He received his bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University, and he went on to receive his PhD in 2011 under the direction of Neil Hindman at Howard University.
Johnson then spent a year at James Madison University as a visiting assistant professor. After that, he joined Ohio State’s math department in 2012 as a Ross Assistant Professor, taking on other roles as well as calculus design coordinator and academic program specialist before being appointed as an assistant professor.
Johnson holds a large number of honors and awards. To name a few, he is currently a Project NExT fellow of the Mathematical Association of America, a recipient of the Minority PhD Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a participant in the GK-12 Fellowship and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship of the National Science Foundation. In addition, Johnson has received several awards from Ohio State, including the Outstanding Staff Award and the Distinguished Faculty Service Award. Johnson is active in building a mathematics community at Ohio State through various projects as a principal investigator, including the Young Mathematicians Conference and Building a Buckeye Calculus Community.
